Colonial Council condemns leaders to severe torture

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.

Further death sentences followed on 10 September, including strangulation and breaking on the wheel. The punishments show how colonial authorities used public bodily terror against people who had...

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...

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...

An ordinance prohibits compulsory plantation work on Sundays and sets working hours and rations. It also limits deductions for clothing and collective punishment. These concessions follow the revolt...