There are no historical sources to confirm accounts that she was a resistance fighter and a close associate of Tula, the leader of the rebellion.
After the revolt was put down, she was described by Dutch government officials in an interrogation report as “a free negro woman who is a conniving and infamous thief, and the so-called wife of Nicolaas Valentijn, who has already been executed.
She can be brought to no other confession than that she buried a petticoat, a camisole and three children's shirts, but afterwards returned them.” Nothing is mentioned about her having played a prominent role in the rebellion.
Father Jacobus Schink, a roman-catholic priest who maintained contact with the insurgents during the revolt, is claimed to have written Sablika a letter to which she replied with wit and self confidence.
On Curaçao and in the Netherlands, the figure of Sablika has become a symbol for female resistance fighters who remain invisible in recorded history.