A document in Coleccion Aruba is titled as an address concerning the question of abolishing slavery in the West Indies, submitted 25 July 1862. It belongs to the abolition debate, where state policy and compensation remained central.
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Which people’s perspective is most directly visible in the four compensation-index entries?
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The entries are organized around borderels, owners, and compensation; individual enslaved people are often unlinked.
The 5 July 1864 payment adjustment gave 100 guilders directly to each formerly enslaved person.
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The encyclopedia describes an increase in compensation paid to owners.