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1
Yanüari
1716

A maize shortage drives prices higher

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📅 1 Yanüari 1716 📍 Kòrsou

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.

Inisiá sesion pa gusta òf marká e relato aki.
🔖 Marká

Personanan den e suseso aki

enslaved people

Company plantation workers

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Curaçao colonial administration

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