Writing from Valencia after Carabobo, BolĂvar asked the Congress of Colombia to make children born to enslaved mothers free from birth. He argued that children belonged to their parents and to God,...
BolĂvar’s decree of 28 June 1827 sought to make the 1821 manumission law work by improving the finances and operation of provincial manumission boards. FundaciĂłn Empresas Polar reports that only about...
