On this day, 17 August 1795, a group of around 40 enslaved Black people on the Dutch colony of Curaçao rebelled, starting a mass revolt on the island. They informed their “owner” that they would not be his slaves, then they left and began freeing other enslaved people 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 those enslaved.
Pictured: a monument to uprising https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1503783916473420/?type=3
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