The agriculture minister discussed emancipation funds and the proposed free-birth measure. The fund offered a route to individual manumission, but it made freedom dependent on state quotas, valuation,...
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...
On 15 December 1850 the provincial deputation of Maracaibo established a subsidiary tax in favor of freedom for enslaved people. It was a local funding measure within the gradual manumission...
A document dated 21 December 1852 set out the distribution of 50,000 pesos from the national budget to provincial manumission funds. It put public money behind gradual emancipation, but the archive...
