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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The 1789 cédula authorized trade in enslaved Africans with the Province of Caracas.
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The royal cédula named Caracas Province and allowed Spanish and foreign merchants to trade under specified rules.