EVENT INFORMATION

1
October
1716

The uprising reaches Porto Marie

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๐Ÿ“… 1 October 1716 ๐Ÿ“ Curacao

The group moved to Porto Marie, where an overseer was sick in bed; the overseer and his wife were killed, and their children were injured but survived. The article describes these acts through colonial reports. This account does not make violence by the enslaved population an equivalent to the ongoing violence of enslavement. Day unspecified.

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enslaved rebels

overseer and family

Organizations in this Event

WIC

Porto Marie plantation