A retrospective encyclopedia records a royal decree of 30 September 1862 regulating pay and staffing of the maréchaussée across Curaçao and its dependencies in anticipation of emancipation. Read alongside the compensation debates, this shows the state preparing both its accounting system and coercive institutions.
Inisiá sesion pa gusta òf marká e relato aki.
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What was the status of enslaved people on the Dutch side after 1 June 1848?
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Splikashon
Van Raders’s 1864 tract discusses their legal status on and after 1 June 1848; Dutch emancipation came in 1863.
The owner name in a compensation index should automatically be treated as the enslaved person’s surname.
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Splikashon
The archival record’s owner fields do not identify the enslaved people, and many were recorded only by first name.