In the late 18th century, African peoples from Jamaica traveled far northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, seeking refuge from slavery under their island’s British rule. In the Netherlands, the Batavian revolution caused some Dutch peoples to escape the conflict between the Orangists and the Patriots. They sailed southwest into the ocean, and found themselves on the south central part of a small uninhabited island southwest of Spain. The Jamaicans ended up on the same island, and, coincidentally, on the same part of it as well.