The address concerns the compensation recently granted to slave owners on Sint Maarten and was submitted on 30 September 1862. The title itself makes clear whose claims were formally represented in this document; it does not preserve enslaved people’s own testimony.
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What did the 1863 petition by Sint Maarten residents represent?
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The digitized item description identifies it as a petition by residents and slave owners in Dutch Sint Maarten.
The 1862 decree regulated the colonial maréchaussée as emancipation approached.
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The retrospective encyclopedia connects the decree to expected emancipation.