| 19 Desèmber 2011 |
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Organic Law Against Racial Discrimination is published
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| 2 Sèptèmber 2011 |
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National census includes Afro-descendant self-identification
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| 10 Mei 2005 |
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National Assembly designates May 10 as Afro-Venezuelan Day
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| 23 April 1863 |
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Treaty of Coche brings the Federal War toward formal closure
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| 25 Febrüari 1859 |
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Coro federal government program prohibits slavery
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| 20 Febrüari 1859 |
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Federal War begins with the “Grito de la Federación” at Coro
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| 21 Desèmber 1858 |
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Convention suspends one abolition-fund tax
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| 31 Òktober 1856 |
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A decree organizes claims and public-credit payments from abolition
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| 13 Mei 1856 |
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Venezuela recognizes abolition compensation as national debt
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| 30 Mart 1854 |
Venezuela
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Monagas issues rules to administer abolition and compensation
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| 26 Mart 1854 |
Venezuela
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“Down with the carpets”: public challenge to lingering domestic servitude
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| 25 Mart 1854 |
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Abolition law is publicly promulgated in Caracas
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| 24 Mart 1854 |
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President Monagas signs the abolition law
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| 23 Mart 1854 |
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Senate approves Venezuela’s abolition law
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| 16 Mart 1854 |
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House of Representatives approves abolition decree
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| 10 Mart 1854 |
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Monagas asks Congress to abolish slavery while protecting owners’ claims
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| 30 April 1853 |
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Circular reminds governors not to import enslaved people, even as servants
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| 21 Desèmber 1852 |
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Government distributes 50,000 pesos among manumission funds
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| 10 Desèmber 1852 |
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Caracas provincial deputation urges Congress to abolish slavery
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| 25 Sèptèmber 1852 |
Venezuela
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Officials request a count of people manumitted at Easter
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| 24 Sèptèmber 1852 |
Venezuela
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Government asks governors for registers of enslaved people
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| 23 Sèptèmber 1852 |
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Interior ministry requests quarterly reports on manumisos in apprenticeship
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| 29 Novèmber 1851 |
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Barquisimeto allocates 10,000 pesos to free enslaved people
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| 15 Desèmber 1850 |
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Maracaibo province creates a tax to support enslaved people’s freedom
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| 28 April 1848 |
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Congress reforms manumission but leaves gradual emancipation in place
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| 2 Sèptèmber 1846 |
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Francisco Rangel’s uprising brings enslaved people into a rural revolt
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| 27 April 1840 |
Venezuela
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Páez regulates the labor placement of people leaving manumission
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| 15 Mart 1839 |
Venezuela
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Venezuela and Britain sign treaty against the transatlantic slave trade
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| 23 Mei 1836 |
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Congress raises the legal whipping limit for enslaved people
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| 25 Yüni 1835 |
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Enslaved people who enlist are denied freedom through military service
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| 2 Òktober 1830 |
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Venezuela extends “free womb” service to age 21
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| 1 Òktober 1830 |
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Venezuela removes the sales tax on enslaved people sold within the country
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| 28 Yüni 1827 |
Venezuela
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Bolívar orders stronger implementation of manumission law
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| 18 Febrüari 1825 |
Venezuela
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Venezuela makes participation in the African slave trade piracy
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| 21 Yüli 1821 |
Venezuela
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Cúcuta law creates “free womb” status while binding children to labor
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| 14 Yüli 1821 |
Venezuela
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Bolívar asks Congress to make children of enslaved mothers free at birth
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| 11 Yanüari 1820 |
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Congress of Angostura decrees gradual emancipation
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| 15 Febrüari 1819 |
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Bolívar calls for abolition at the Congress of Angostura
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| 14 Mart 1818 |
Venezuela
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Bolívar calls on the Tuy’s formerly enslaved men to defend their freedom
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| 6 Yüli 1816 |
Venezuela
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Bolívar restates emancipation in the Ocumare proclamation
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| 2 Yüni 1816 |
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Bolívar’s Carúpano decree ties freedom to military service
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| 24 Yüni 1812 |
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Barlovento uprising rejects conscription and asserts freedom
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| 21 Yüni 1812 |
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Caracas legislature orders conscription of one thousand enslaved men
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| 19 Yüni 1812 |
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Miranda’s martial law mobilizes free men but excludes enslaved men
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| 21 Desèmber 1811 |
Venezuela
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First Venezuelan Constitution abolishes the transatlantic slave trade
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| 5 Yüli 1811 |
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Venezuela declares independence without ending slavery
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| 14 Ougùstùs 1810 |
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Caracas Junta prohibits international slave trading
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| 19 April 1810 |
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Caracas forms a new government while slavery remains intact
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| 16 Desèmber 1807 |
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Authorities capture a canoe carrying 13 fugitive enslaved people
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| 3 Ougùstùs 1806 |
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Miranda’s expedition lands at La Vela de Coro
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| 19 Mei 1799 |
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Authorities stop the planned Maracaibo uprising
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| 8 Mei 1799 |
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José María España is executed in Caracas
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| 8 Mei 1799 |
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Authorities expose Francisco Javier Pirela’s Maracaibo plot
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| 6 Mei 1799 |
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Colonial tribunal sentences José María España to death
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| 13 Yüli 1797 |
Venezuela
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Authorities uncover the Gual and España conspiracy
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| 10 Desèmber 1796 |
Venezuela
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Colonial court condemns José Leonardo Chirino
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| 12 Mei 1795 |
Venezuela
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Coro revolt meets renewed violence and colonial repression
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| 10 Mei 1795 |
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Coro insurrection begins under José Leonardo Chirino
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| 2 Desèmber 1794 |
Venezuela
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Francisca Mesones appeals to protect her son’s marriage and future children
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| 24 Novèmber 1791 |
Venezuela
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Royal cédula extends slave-trade privileges to Caracas province
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| 6 Òktober 1790 |
Venezuela
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Juana Ignacia asks through a procurator that her owner sell her
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| 28 Febrüari 1789 |
Venezuela
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Spanish Crown liberalizes the slave trade to Caracas Province
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| 8 Sèptèmber 1777 |
Venezuela
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Royal decree consolidates the Captaincy General of Venezuela
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| 13 Yüni 1777 |
Venezuela
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Royal order opens a channel for exchanging Venezuelan provisions for enslaved Africans
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| 8 Desèmber 1776 |
Venezuela
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Crown creates a Caracas-based intendancy over Venezuela and neighboring provinces
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| 28 Mart 1752 |
Venezuela
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Authorities send De León and his son to prison in Cádiz
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| 9 Febrüari 1752 |
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Juan Francisco de León surrenders after the anti-monopoly revolt
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| 22 April 1749 |
Venezuela
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Caracas council publicly criticizes the Guipuzcoan Company
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| 20 April 1749 |
Venezuela
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De León’s mass petition reaches Caracas’s central square
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| 19 April 1749 |
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African-descended cultivators from Barlovento march against the Guipuzcoan Company
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| 24 Mart 1747 |
Venezuela
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Joseph Francisco Caviedes petitions to buy his freedom with saved wages
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| 11 Febrüari 1732 |
Venezuela
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Governor’s campaign against Andresote offers a reward for his killing
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| 25 Sèptèmber 1728 |
Venezuela
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Crown charter establishes the Guipuzcoan Company’s Venezuela trade privilege
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| 10 Mart 1684 |
Venezuela
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Royal report records an enslaved man’s escape from captors
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| 24 Mart 1683 |
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Free Black man Francisco de Suñiga joins anti-smuggling action
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| 15 Òktober 1677 |
Venezuela
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Incomplete freedom case names three-year-old María and her mother
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| 13 Ougùstùs 1668 |
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Caracas debates night trading by enslaved and Indigenous workers
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| 25 Yüni 1668 |
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Dowry inventory assigns enslaved children as property
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| 20 Mei 1668 |
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Debt instrument lists Baltasar and Luis as enslaved property
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| 19 Sèptèmber 1667 |
Venezuela
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Will directs the sale of six enslaved people
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| 27 Yüli 1667 |
Venezuela
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Caracas's cabildo seeks hundreds of enslaved workers amid disease and land expansion
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| 1 Yanüari 1664 |
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Enslaved man Manuel answers officials about his master
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| 16 Òktober 1663 |
Venezuela
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Mine register records the death of Miguel, a married enslaved man
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| 27 Ougùstùs 1663 |
Venezuela
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Mine register records the death of Juan Bran
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| 4 Yüli 1662 |
Venezuela
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History slavery Venezuela
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Mine register records the death of Antonio Cachanga
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| 16 Febrüari 1659 |
Venezuela
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History slavery Venezuela
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Caracas land register names nineteen Black and mixed-race women
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| 24 Novèmber 1656 |
Venezuela
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History slavery Venezuela
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Bobures census records enslaved people across cacao estates
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| 22 Novèmber 1656 |
Venezuela
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History slavery Venezuela
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Río de Castro census lists twenty-one enslaved people
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| 19 Novèmber 1656 |
Venezuela
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History slavery Venezuela
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Officials order a census of enslaved Black men in Tucani and Torondoy
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| 4 Sèptèmber 1655 |
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Chama Valley census records enslaved families and separations
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| 26 Yüni 1654 |
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Enslaved messenger delivers warning of thirteen enemy ships
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| 3 Yanüari 1654 |
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Juana de Villanueva petitions for a lot
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| 25 Mei 1651 |
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Free Black woman Ana de Guevara receives half a lot
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| 15 Mei 1646 |
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Cocorote register records another enslaved child’s birth
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| 4 Febrüari 1645 |
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Free mulatta Francisca González secures a half lot
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| 9 Ougùstùs 1643 |
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Cocorote register records the birth of an enslaved child
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| 10 Yanüari 1626 |
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Cabildo notes an enslaved woman’s illness
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| 22 Novèmber 1625 |
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Caracas records Black and mulatto residents’ land lots
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| 30 Òktober 1624 |
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History slavery Venezuela
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A captain contributes three enslaved people to the campaign against Nirgua
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| 18 Yüni 1616 |
Venezuela
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History slavery Venezuela
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Salvador, a Black public crier, appears in Caracas council records
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| 20 Òktober 1614 |
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Caracas orders shopkeepers to stop trading with enslaved Black and mulatto people
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| 30 Yüli 1604 |
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Shipwreck leaves two Africans on the Falcón coast
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| 26 Sèptèmber 1603 |
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History slavery Venezuela
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Royal prosecutor orders seizure of officials’ assets, including enslaved people
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| 30 Yüli 1603 |
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Caracas's cabildo petitions to bring 1,000 enslaved Africans to Venezuela
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| 8 Sèptèmber 1601 |
Venezuela
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Coro's church leadership plans to buy 12 enslaved Africans for construction
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| 14 April 1599 |
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Caracas's cabildo considers 500 enslaved people for resale on credit
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| 4 Òktober 1597 |
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Officials review a request for 600 enslaved people for Margarita and Cumaná
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| 16 Sèptèmber 1597 |
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Francisco appears as Caracas’s Black public crier
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| 12 Yüli 1597 |
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A royal cédula orders 200 enslaved Africans sent to Nueva Andalucía
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| 23 Novèmber 1592 |
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A royal cédula sends Simón de Bolívar’s petition to the governor of Venezuela
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| 13 Mei 1592 |
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History slavery Venezuela
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Royal cédula refers to enslaved pearl divers
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| 27 April 1592 |
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History slavery Venezuela
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Antonio escapes municipal enslavement in Caracas
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| 2 Yüni 1590 |
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History slavery Venezuela
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Enslaved people are forced ashore at La Guaira
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| 24 Mart 1590 |
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Provincial councils instruct Simón de Bolívar to seek 3,000 enslaved Africans
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| 22 Novèmber 1589 |
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Maracaibo seeks 250 enslaved people on credit for cattle and agriculture
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| 16 Sèptèmber 1587 |
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A royal cédula authorizes 25 more enslaved Africans for Margarita's fortifications
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| 2 April 1582 |
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The Crown authorizes 150 enslaved Africans for Margarita's pearl fishery
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| 4 Febrüari 1573 |
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History slavery Venezuela
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Agustín de Ancona seeks license for enslaved miner Francisco
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| 27 Mart 1565 |
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History slavery Venezuela
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Royal accounts record money from the sale of Diego
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| 25 Yüni 1558 |
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History slavery Venezuela
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Royal decree excludes Indigenous people from pearl fishing and reserves the work for Africans
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| 30 Novèmber 1552 |
Venezuela
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History slavery Venezuela
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Miguel escapes forced labor at the Buría gold mines
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| 20 Òktober 1550 |
Venezuela
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History slavery Venezuela
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Coro's bishop seeks 30 enslaved Africans to maintain an irrigation work
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| 17 Òktober 1548 |
Venezuela
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History slavery Venezuela
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Juan Pérez de Tolosa opens a second inspection of pearl-fishery labor
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| 16 Yüni 1544 |
Venezuela
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History slavery Venezuela
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Bishop Martín de Calatayud begins an inspection of pearl-fishery labor
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| 20 Novèmber 1542 |
Venezuela
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History slavery Venezuela
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New Laws prohibit Indigenous enslavement and address deadly labor in Venezuela fisheries
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| 2 Mart 1537 |
Venezuela
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History slavery Venezuela
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Royal cédula records Domingo’s path to freedom
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| 17 Mart 1536 |
Venezuela
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History slavery Venezuela
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Crown restricts sending enslaved Indigenous people from Venezuela to Iberia
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| 27 Òktober 1535 |
Venezuela
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History slavery Venezuela
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Crown orders an inquiry into Indigenous enslavement in Venezuela
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| 16 Òktober 1533 |
Venezuela
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History slavery Venezuela
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A Cubagua inventory records an unnamed Black man aboard a ship
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| 3 Sèptèmber 1533 |
Venezuela
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History slavery Venezuela
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An inventory names a Black child as Andresico
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| 8 Mei 1533 |
Venezuela
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History slavery Venezuela
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An inventory on Cubagua records an enslaved African mother and children
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| 27 Mart 1528 |
Venezuela
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History slavery Venezuela
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Crown grants a conquest and governance concession in Venezuela
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| 1 Yüni 1527 |
Venezuela
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History slavery Venezuela
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Crown permits twelve enslaved people for Cubagua pearl fishery
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| 12 Yanüari 1526 |
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History slavery Venezuela
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A royal license authorizes an African slave shipment to Cubagua
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