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6
Mei
1799

Colonial tribunal sentences José María España to death

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📅 6 Mei 1799 📍 Venezuela

After Spain returned clandestinely to Venezuela and was captured, a special colonial tribunal sentenced him to death. The sentence prescribed a public execution and the display of his severed head and body parts in places associated with the conspiracy. This was state terror designed to deter future revolt. The proceedings also involved Black and Indigenous women who had helped hide Spain and were punished, while an enslaved informer named Rafael España was later rewarded with manumission and a pension. These details expose how colonial authorities used coercion and selective reward to divide people living under racial hierarchy.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

José María España

Manuel de Guevara Vasconcelos

Joaquina Sánchez

Rafael España

unnamed Indigenous and freedwoman helpers

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Royal Audiencia of Caracas

Spanish colonial government