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The figure of Cuffy standing on top has many symbols. His pouting mouth symbolizes his defiance, the face on his chest forms a symbolic breastplate that gives protection during battle, and the honed faces on his thighs represent revolutionaries from
Guyanese history. He holds in his hands a dog and a
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Cuffy was soon accepted by the rebels as their leader and declared himself
Governor of Berbice. Doing so he named Captain Accara as his deputy in charge of military affairs, and tried to establish discipline over the troops. Accara was skilful in military discipline. They organized the farms in order
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Suriname attacked, and killed them. On 27 February 1763, a revolt took place on the Hollandia plantation next to Lilienburg. Cuffy is said to have organized the slaves into a military unit, after which the revolt spread to neighbouring plantations. When Dutch Governor Wolfert Simon Van Hoogenheim
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committed himself to retake the colony. Accara attacked the whites three times without permission from Cuffy, and eventually the colonists were driven back. Thus began a dispute among the two rebels. On 2 April 1763, Cuffy wrote to Van
Hoogenheim saying that he did not want a war against the whites
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Coffy, Governor of the
Negroes of Berbice, and Captain Akara send greetings and inform Your Excellency that they seek no war; but if Your Excellency wants war, the Negroes are likewise ready (...) The Governor will give Your Excellency one half of Berbice, and all the Negroes will go high up the
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October 1763, it was reported to the governor that
Captains Atta had revolted against Cuffy , and that Cuffy had committed suicide. In the meantime, the colonists had already been strengthened by the arrival of soldiers. On 15 April 1764 Captain Accabre, the last of the insurgents, was captured.
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soon followed. Cuffy then ordered his forces to attack the whites in May 1763, but in so doing had many losses. The defeat opened a division among the rebels and weakened their organization. Accara became the leader of a new faction opposed to Cuffy and led to a civil war among themselves. On 19
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This statue is called the 1763 Monument or the Cuffy
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and proposed a partition of
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had to make that decision and that it would take three to four months. He was waiting for support from neighboring colonies; a ship from
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pig, both being throttled with the dog representing covetousness and greed while the pig represents ignorance.
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Thompson, Alvin O., "The Berbice Revolt 1763-64", in Winston F. McGowan, James G. Rose and David A. Granger (eds),
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