On 15 December, Indigenous fighters attack plantations in several areas. Sugar works and settlers’ property are destroyed, and colonial residents are killed. The attacks show organized resistance to colonial occupation. Hira reconstructs events mainly from colonial letters, which reveal only part of the fighters’ aims and decision-making.
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Ainda no tin imágen ni vidio pa e suseso aki.
Eventonan Relashoná
What is an important limitation of the colonial accounts?
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Splikashon
Most surviving documents were written by colonial administrators and soldiers.
The war began with attacks on plantations in December 1678.
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Splikashon
Hira dates the large-scale attack on plantations to 15 December 1678.