Historical Person

Miguel Gerónimo de Ballesteros

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Miguel Gerónimo de Ballesteros

Gender: Male

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Coro's bishop seeks 30 enslaved Africans to maintain an irrigation work

📅 20 October 1550

Bishop Miguel Gerónimo de Ballesteros asked the Crown to send 30 enslaved Africans to maintain Coro's acequia and dam, originally built by Indigenous labor. His request linked African enslavement to...