EVENT INFORMATION

2
Yüni
1816

Bolívar’s Carúpano decree ties freedom to military service

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📅 2 Yüni 1816 📍 Venezuela

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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Personanan den e suseso aki

Simón Bolívar

Pedro Briceño Méndez

enslaved people of Río Caribe

Carúpano

and Cariaco

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Republic of Venezuela

Republican army