EVENT INFORMATION

22
December
1716

A second letter records the cost of capturing the accused

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📅 22 December 1716 📍 Curaçao

A letter dated 22 December 1716 again addressed the uprising. The governor charged the Company 1,300 pesos for the expense of capturing the rebels. The amount makes the administration’s accounting of repression visible; the study also describes the punishments as exceptionally cruel.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Jonathan van Beuningen

enslaved rebels

Organisaties in dit Evenement

WIC

Amsterdam Chamber