On this day, 17 August 1795, a group of around 40 slaves on the Dutch colony of Curaçao rebelled and kickstarted a slave revolt on the island. They informed their “owner” they would not be his slaves, then they left and began freeing other slaves and gathering weapons. The rebellion lasted just over a month until the leaders were captured and killed, however it forced the granting of new rights to slaves.
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Pictured: a monument to the uprising https://ift.tt/2MVVpML
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