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Margarita fortifications

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Margarita fortifications

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A royal cédula authorizes 25 more enslaved Africans for Margarita's fortifications

📅 16 September 1587

The Crown authorized the transport of 25 additional enslaved Africans to Margarita for fortification construction. Their coerced labor was to serve colonial defense infrastructure; the surviving...