Bolívar declared freedom for enslaved people in Río Caribe, Carúpano, and Cariaco, but men aged 14–60 had to enlist within 24 hours. Refusal could return a man and his family to servitude; women, children, elderly people, and disabled people were exempt from military service and freed from prior domestic and field labor under the text. This was a radical but conditional wartime decree, not nationwide abolition.
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Under Bolívar’s Carúpano decree, what was required of many enslaved men?
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Men aged 14–60 were ordered to enlist quickly; refusal carried threat of re-enslavement.
Bolívar’s 1816 Carúpano decree linked freedom for many men to military enlistment.
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Men aged 14–60 were required to enlist; refusal threatened them and their families with servitude.