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1
January
1716

A maize shortage drives prices higher

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๐Ÿ“… 1 January 1716 ๐Ÿ“ Curacao

The article notes that purchased maize cost two pesos per schepel in 1716, compared with one peso in 1709. Rising costs made rations harder to provide and fed the conditions the historian identifies around the uprising. No exact day is supplied.

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enslaved people

Company plantation workers

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Curaรงao colonial administration

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