Tula Bastian Karpata Louis Mercier Pedro Wakao Johannes de Veer Commander Wierts Lieutenant Plegher Baron Westerholt 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).

He argued that, since the European Netherlands was now under French occupation as a sister republic, the slaves on Curaçao should get their freedom as well.

[3] On the morning of 17 August 1795, Tula led an uprising of 40 to 50 people at the Knip plantation of Caspar Lodewijk van Uytrecht in Bandabou.

[5] At the same time, a confederate French slave, Louis Mercier, led another group of freed people to Santa Cruz, where he took the commandant, van der Grijp, and ten of his mixed-race soldiers as prisoners.

[6] Van Uytrecht in the meantime had sent his son on horseback with a note to the governor, and at 7 p.m., the council met to prepare a defense of the colony.

Governor Johannes de Veer ordered Commander Wierts of the navy ship Medea to defend Fort Amsterdam.

[4] At the plantation of Fontein, Louis Mercier killed the Dutch schoolmaster, Sabel, who became the first white victim of the rebellion.

The governor and the slavers had raised a force of 93 well-armed horsemen under the command of Captain Baron van Westerholt to renew the attack.

[10] Although Tula remains at the centre of the commemoration of the revolt, other leading figures are now also receiving attention, such as Carpata, Pedro Wacao, Louis Mercier en Sablika.