EVENT INFORMATION

28
Febrüari
1789

Spanish Crown liberalizes the slave trade to Caracas Province

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📅 28 Febrüari 1789 📍 Venezuela

A royal cédula authorized Spanish and foreign merchants to trade enslaved Africans with Cuba, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, and the Province of Caracas under specified rules. The measure treated people as commercial cargo and framed coerced labor as a means to expand colonial agriculture and state wealth. It widened legal access to the trade; it did not change the enslaved status of people already in Venezuela. The document’s own title explicitly names the Province of Caracas.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Charles IV of Spain

Antonio Valdés

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Spanish Crown

Province of Caracas