Ramón Castilla decreed the abolition of slavery. Afro-Peruvians’ struggles for freedom belonged to a broader conflict over a colonial institution surviving after independence. Ending legal enslavement did not provide an automatic remedy for racial exclusion or decades of uncompensated labor.
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