A month after the Carúpano decree, Bolívar issued a broader proclamation at Ocumare de la Costa promising freedom to enslaved people who joined the republican cause. Like other wartime emancipation offers, it tied freedom to military service and did not dismantle slaveholding as a legal institution. Its expansion shows both the force of enslaved people’s freedom claims and the republic’s use of emancipation to recruit soldiers.
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What did Bolívar’s 6 July 1816 Ocumare proclamation do?
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The proclamation broadened a conditional wartime emancipation offer; slavery remained a legal institution.
The Carúpano decree was an unconditional nationwide abolition of slavery.
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It applied to specified eastern towns and carried military conditions; it did not abolish slavery nationally.