The Curaçao history canon records a contract on this date between 25 newly freed Curaçaoan men and a Venezuelan employer. Emigration offered a route to wages beyond the island, while also placing workers in new employer-controlled contracts.
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What is a decolonial way to read the Asiento refinery documents?
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The archive documents corporate decisions; its limits should be made visible.
The two July 1863 contracts described here were signed by people still legally enslaved.
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The contracts are described as involving newly freed men after emancipation.