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24
Òktober
1716

Van Beuningen writes to the Amsterdam directors about punishment

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📅 24 Òktober 1716 📍 Kòrsou

In a letter dated 24 October 1716, Governor Van Beuningen told WIC directors that the accused would be punished as an example. This is a direct trace of how colonial power framed public terror as deterrence. The rebels’ voices are absent from the letter as described by the historian.

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Jonathan van Beuningen

accused enslaved rebels

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WIC

Amsterdam Chamber