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The history of Curaçao ... Salt collection in Curacao. ... The destabilization of the region produced by the Napoleonic Wars in Europe and the Imperialistic advances ...
The first European settlers and administrators 3: The conquest of Curaçao by the WIC and the arrival of the Dutch [5] 1634–1665: The conquest of Curaçao 4: New inhabitants in the seventeenth century [6] 1634–1700: Introduction of the plantation economy: 5: The slave trade and slavery [7] 1672–1713: Curaçao as slave market 6: Resistance ...
Curaçao, [a] officially the Country of Curaçao (Dutch: Land Curaçao; [10] Papiamentu: Pais Kòrsou), [11] [12] is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the southern Caribbean Sea, specifically the Dutch Caribbean region, about 65 km (40 mi) north of Venezuela.
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The Colony of Curaçao and Dependencies (Dutch: Kolonie Curaçao en onderhorigheden; Papiamento: Kolonia di Kòrsou i dependensianan) was a Dutch colony in the Caribbean Sea from 1634 until 1828 and from 1845 until 1954.
The Curaçao Slave Revolt of 1795 was a slave revolt in the Dutch colony of Curaçao, led by the enslaved man Tula (Toela in a contemporary Dutch report). It resulted in a month-long conflict on the island between escapees and the colonial government.
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The rise of the oil industry led to the importation of civil servants, mostly from the Netherlands. This led to a segmentation of white, Protestant Curaçaoan society into landskinderen —those whose families had been in Curaçao for generations, and makamba, immigrants from Europe who had closer ties to the Netherlands. Dutch immigrants ...