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Caracas Junta prohibits international slave trading
đź“… 14 August 1810The Supreme Junta of Caracas prohibited the international introduction and trade of enslaved people. The measure did not emancipate people already enslaved, end domestic sale, or dismantle...
Abolition law is publicly promulgated in Caracas
đź“… 25 March 1854The law was publicly promulgated in Caracas amid official ceremony and popular attendance. Contemporary accounts emphasized national leaders and republican symbols. A decolonial account also asks...
“Down with the carpets”: public challenge to lingering domestic servitude
📅 26 March 1854The day after promulgation, women newly freed by law continued their customary work carrying employers’ carpets to church. A crowd seized and tore the carpets, shouting “¡Abajo las alfombras!” The...
Monagas issues rules to administer abolition and compensation
📅 30 March 1854Five days after public promulgation of the 1854 abolition law, President José Gregorio Monagas issued regulations for its administration. The system required abolition boards to register formerly...
A decree organizes claims and public-credit payments from abolition
📅 31 October 1856A presidential decree supplemented the May law recognizing abolition claims as public debt. It created procedures to classify and register former owners’ claims, exchange abolition certificates,...
Convention suspends one abolition-fund tax
đź“… 21 December 1858The National Convention repealed a provision of the 1856 abolition-debt law that imposed a national tax on retail and wholesale sales of wine, spirits, tobacco, and related products. The act said...
Federal War begins with the “Grito de la Federación” at Coro
đź“… 20 February 1859Tirso SalaverrĂa and a small group of federalists seized the Coro barracks, took weapons, and proclaimed the Federation, beginning the conflict known as the Federal War. Later Venezuelan reference...
Treaty of Coche brings the Federal War toward formal closure
📅 23 April 1863Pedro José Rojas and Antonio Guzmán Blanco concluded the Treaty of Coche near Caracas, setting out an agreement to end the Federal War and establish a political transition. Fundación Empresas Polar...
National census includes Afro-descendant self-identification
📅 2 September 2011As Venezuela’s 2011 population census began, public reporting described a new option for residents to identify as Afro-descendant. The category made Afro-descendant identity countable in a national...