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The WIC captured Curaçao from the Spanish in 1634. The dry island was not suitable for large plantations. Even so, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it became the main centre of the Dutch slave trade in the Caribbean. The WIC brought enslaved Africans to Curaçao and sold many of them on to the Spanish colonies. On the island itself, enslaved people worked on smaller plantations, in households and in the port of Willemstad. In 1795 Tula led a major revolt. Slavery was abolished on 1 July 1863.

Source: Atlas of Mutual Heritage

People

  1. 28 July 1766
    Cornelis Star Lichtenvoort
    Departure from Curaçao on the Vrouwe Anna (shipmaster Jan Molenhouwer), 28-7-1766; arrival at Texel 23-10-1766; in Kleinemeer from early 1767
  2. 3 October 1769
    Cornelis Star Lichtenvoort
    Sent back to Curaçao with captain Pieter Hanson (departure c. 3-10-1769); Star Lichtenvoort paid the passage of ƒ150 through Isaac Decker
  3. 1741
  4. 28 July 1766
    Maria Webb Kock
    Departure from Curaçao on the Vrouwe Anna (shipmaster Jan Molenhouwer), 28-7-1766; arrival at Texel 23-10-1766; in Kleinemeer from early 1767
  5. 1723
  6. 28 July 1766
    Catharina Decker
    Departure from Curaçao on the Vrouwe Anna (shipmaster Jan Molenhouwer), 28-7-1766; arrival at Texel 23-10-1766; in Kleinemeer from early 1767
  7. 29 December 1787
  8. c. 1755
  9. 28 July 1766
    Louis Alons
    Departure from Curaçao on the Vrouwe Anna (shipmaster Jan Molenhouwer), 28-7-1766; arrival at Texel 23-10-1766; in Kleinemeer from early 1767
  10. 28 July 1766
    Sambo
    Departure from Curaçao on the Vrouwe Anna (shipmaster Jan Molenhouwer), 28-7-1766; arrival at Texel 23-10-1766; in Kleinemeer from early 1767
  11. 3 October 1769
    Sambo
    Sent back to Curaçao with captain Pieter Hanson (departure c. 3-10-1769); Star Lichtenvoort paid the passage of ƒ150 through Isaac Decker
  12. 28 July 1766
    Anna
    Departure from Curaçao on the Vrouwe Anna (shipmaster Jan Molenhouwer), 28-7-1766; arrival at Texel 23-10-1766; in Kleinemeer from early 1767
  13. 3 October 1769
    Anna
    Sent back to Curaçao with captain Pieter Hanson (departure c. 3-10-1769); Star Lichtenvoort paid the passage of ƒ150 through Isaac Decker
  14. 1751
    Anna Elisabeth de Maffé
    Born on Curaçao, c. 1751 (calculated: 68 years old at death 25-7-1819; 16 years old at marriage 1767)
  15. 5 June 1790
    Sibilla Plantina Geertsema
    Herkomst bij ondertrouw: "van Curacao (Cuzassauw)"
  16. 1775
    Sibilla Plantina Geertsema
    Geboren op Curaçao (jaar berekend uit leeftijd bij overlijden: 67 jaar op 20-8-1842)