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Tula (died 3 October 1795), also known as Tula Rigaud, was an African man enslaved on the island of Curaçao, in the Dutch West Indies, who liberated himself and led the Curaçao Slave Revolt of 1795. The revolt, which began on 17 August 1795, lasted for more than a month. [2] He was executed on 3 October 1795.
On 19 September, Tula and Karpata were betrayed by a slave named Caspar Lodewijk. [4] They were taken prisoner, and the war was effectively over. Louis Mercier had already been caught at Knip. After Tula was captured, he was publicly tortured to death on 3 October 1795, almost seven weeks after the revolt began. [7]
In 1795, a major slave revolt took place under the lead of Tula Rigaud, Louis Mercier, Bastian Karpata, and Pedro Wakao. Up to 4000 enslaved Africans on the northwest section of the island revolted. Up to 4000 enslaved Africans on the northwest section of the island revolted.
Tula: The Revolt is a 2013 Dutch-Curaçaoan historical drama film directed by Jeroen Leinders. The film tells the life story of the slave Tula (Obi Abili) who lead the Slave Revolt of 1795 on Curaçao in the Dutch West Indies. [2] The film premiered on 24 june 2013 (worldwide) and on 11 july 2013 Curaçao. [3]
André Rigaud (1761–1811) was the leading mulatto military leader during the Haitian Revolution. Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (1762–1806), father of French writer Alexandre Dumas (author of The Three Musketeers), was the son of a noble French general in Saint Domingue and a slave woman. His father took him to France at age 14 and gave him an ...
John Francis Rigaud RA (18 May 1742 – 6 December 1810) was an eighteenth-century history, portrait, and decorative painter. Of French descent, he was born in Turin and spent most of his career in England.
'The Room Next Door' stars talk about director Pedro Almodóvar, dying and the need to keep living even in challenging times.
The Rigaud children by John Francis Rigaud, 1778 (Ashmolean Museum) Stephen Peter Rigaud (12 August 1774–16 March 1839) FRAS [1] was an English mathematical historian and astronomer. Rigaud was born into a French Protestant family. [2] His father, Stephen (also known as James Stephen) Rigaud, was Observer at the Kew Observatory.