Plantation owners

Events

1

Episodes

3

Years

1863–1873

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Plantation owners, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

1. Slavery abolished in Suriname and Curaçao

   1863–1873

   Role: Plantation owners who did not pay former enslaved workers the pay owed and paid with plantation-ground property rights to escape debt

   1. 11863 · CuraçaoEconomic Shift in Curaçao

      The abolition of slavery in Curaçao in 1863 caused vast economic changes and a shift to wage labor.

   2. 21863-1873 · SurinameDebt Evasion in Suriname

      Plantation owners in Suriname failed to pay former enslaved workers for the ten years following 1863.

   3. 31 July 1863 · SurinameAbolition in Suriname

      Slavery was abolished in Suriname in 1863, requiring ten years of minimal pay for former slaves as partial compensation for masters.

Sources

1. Suriname Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-26