“Their power has been broken, the danger has passed.” Dutch newspaper coverage of the Berbice slave revolt, 1763

In February 1763 one of the largest and longest slave revolts erupted in the Dutch colony of Berbice. As the majority of the white population fled, colonial authorities were left behind with few, and mostly ill soldiers, and in no time the insurgents controlled the colony almost completely. This re...

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Main Author: Esther Baakman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Journals 2018-09-01
Series:Early Modern Low Countries
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Online Access:https://emlc-journal.org/article/view/7188