Executions and torture continue

Reports say enslaved people from Savonet, St. Jeronimo, Zorgvlied, Wakauw, and Hato joined the revolt. The spread shows that resistance was not confined to one plantation. The colonial council...

The colonial government sends units to the coast and checks Black and mixed-race travelers for weapons and messages. Raids and arrests cast the wider population under suspicion. This repression aims...

The rebels gather on Grote Berg near Fonteijn and use the terrain to repel colonial attacks. The colonial commander postpones an assault because of the steep slope and the defensible position. The...

Hira’s overview lists eight enslaved people hanged on 27 August. The swift executions show how colonial justice used punishment to deter resistance, while the system of slavery itself remained...

Hira’s overview lists four executions on 4 September. Repression continued after organized resistance had been broken; punishment and terror were used to restore plantation order.

The governor reports that a general search has failed to capture Tula and Carpatta. The authorities grow frustrated and fear that the leaders can be caught only by deception. The search shows both the...

Tula is denounced and arrested; Carpatta is captured the same day with the help of enslaved people on a plantation. The colonial government offers a priest in exchange for confessions and threatens...

The Council orders Tula, Carpatta, Mercier, Waccau, Juan Felix, and Louis to undergo severe torture. Hira stresses that confessions extracted under torture are unreliable and that the core of the...

On 2 October, Tula and Carpatta are broken on the wheel and beheaded; their heads are displayed. Pedro Waccau and other fighters are also killed with extreme violence. The executions serve as a public...

Historian G.B. Bosch estimates that more than one hundred enslaved people died in the revolt: in fighting, through earlier sentences, and in the city. Hira reconstructs the names of those executed...