EVENT INFORMATION

1
Yüli
1716

Eighty people are sent to Company plantations

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📅 1 Yüli 1716 📍 Kòrsou

Because demand for resale to Spanish territories was low, Governor Jonathan van Beuningen distributed 80 people from the cargo among Hato, Piscadera, St. Marie, and Rooy Canarie. This was a forced dispersal across Company properties. Month-only date normalized to 1 July.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

80 enslaved people from Elmina

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Jonathan van Beuningen

WIC plantations