Venezuelan Congress

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Venezuela removes the sales tax on enslaved people sold within the country

📅 1 Òktober 1830

A decree of 1 October 1830 ended the alcabala on sales of enslaved people and locally consumed produce, while lowering the general rate on certain remaining transactions. The fiscal measure treated...

Congress raises the legal whipping limit for enslaved people

📅 23 Mei 1836

A law approved on 23 May 1836 expanded owners’ authority to punish enslaved people and raised the permitted maximum from 29 to 100 lashes. Fundación Empresas Polar describes it as a regression...

Congress reforms manumission but leaves gradual emancipation in place

📅 28 April 1848

Congress passed a new manumission law on 21 April 1848; it was ordered into effect on 28 April. It reorganized local boards and reporting, and continued a system that freed people through limited...

Monagas asks Congress to abolish slavery while protecting owners’ claims

📅 10 Mart 1854

On 10 March 1854 President José Gregorio Monagas addressed Congress during debate over abolition. He urged passage of a just law while insisting that abolition not violate slaveholders’ property...

Venezuela abolishes slavery

📅 24 Mart 1854

The abolition law ended legal slavery after years of petitions, uprisings, and military service by Afro-Venezuelans. Compensation went to enslavers rather than formerly enslaved people, and formal...