Curaçao in the age of revolutions, 1795-1800 /

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"From 1795 through 1800, a series of revolts rocked Curaçao, a small but strategically located Dutch colony just off the South American continent. A combination of internal and external factors produced these uprisings, in which free and enslaved islanders participated with various objectives....

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Klooster, Wim, Oostindie, Gert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden : KITLV Press, 2011.
Series:Dutch Atlantic connections.
Caribbean series (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands)) ; 30.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Slave rebellions > Curaçao > 18th century.
Humanities.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Slave rebellions
Curaçao > History > 18th century.
Curaçao (Antilles néerlandaises) > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Curaçao
Curaçao.
Caribbean
Slavery
Revolts
Colonial politics
Revolution
Slave rebellion
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Slave resistance, colour lines, and the impact of the French and Haitian revolutions in Curaçao / Gert Oostindie
  • Slave rebellion during the Age of Revolution / David Geggus
  • The rising expectations of free and enslaved blacks in the greater Caribbean / Wim Klooster
  • Inter-colonial networks and revolutionary ferment in eighteenth-century Curaçao and Tierra Firme / Linda M. Rupert
  • Revolution and politics in Venezuela and Curaçao, 1795-1800 / Ramón Aizpurua
  • The patriot coup d'état in Curaçao, 1796 / Karwan Fatah-Black
  • Patriots, privateers and international politics: the myth of the conspiracy of Jean Baptiste Tierce C / adet / Han Jordaan.

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