Resistance reaches Paramaribo

Indigenous fighters attack Acaribo with help from Africans who had escaped the plantation. Their cooperation connects resistance to colonial occupation with resistance to slavery. The colonial...

Governor Heijnsius dies. His death comes as the occupation is under pressure and colonial authorities are trying to restore military control. The struggle does not end with one governor: resistance...

The government assembles an expedition of Europeans and Indigenous allies. Its plan is to destroy villages and food stores and kill residents, forcing the resistance to surrender or leave. This is...

Several soldiers are killed and others wounded during an attack on Fort Oranje. The surviving occupiers abandon the post and return to Paramaribo with the wounded. The attack shows that fortified...

A land and river expedition destroys villages and, according to the report, captures 82 Indigenous people and five Maroons. The source says most of the Indigenous captives were hanged. Women and...

The Sapaijers, who had earlier fought the Dutch, now side with the occupier and attack Carib fighters, according to the colonial report. This shift shows that Indigenous peoples did not form a...

A colonial operation destroys a Maroon stronghold and kills about fifty people led by Gaminet. The source says only one man escaped. It gives no exact day in September. The attack shows that...

After taking office, Governor Van Sommelsdijck declares that fighters must be hunted down and killed, settlements destroyed and food supplies removed. The aim is to bring Indigenous communities...

An expedition of about 284 men moves into the interior during the rainy season. After ten weeks, the colonial report records deaths, captives and burned villages, but no elimination of the resistance....

A military unit sets out on an expedition together with Indigenous allies. The surviving account gives little information about the outcome. The archive thus shows how colonial military plans are...