EVENT INFORMATION

30
Mart
1854

Monagas issues rules to administer abolition and compensation

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📅 30 Mart 1854 📍 Venezuela

Five days after public promulgation of the 1854 abolition law, President José Gregorio Monagas issued regulations for its administration. The system required abolition boards to register formerly enslaved people and former owners, assess claims, collect dedicated revenues, and distribute compensation. This paperwork made freedom legible to the state through censuses and creditor claims, while centering owners’ property valuations. It documents the machinery of abolition, not whether every freed person could secure land, wages, or family autonomy.

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José Gregorio Monagas

members of abolition boards

formerly enslaved people

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Government of Venezuela

abolition boards

provincial treasuries