EVENT INFORMATION

19
April
1810

Caracas forms a new government while slavery remains intact

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📅 19 April 1810 📍 Venezuela

Caracas’s cabildo removed Spanish officials and formed a new governing body, beginning the revolutionary process that led to independence. Pardo representation appeared in the municipal act, but the political transfer did not abolish slavery: the institution remained in place during the first measures of the independence movement. This distinction matters because sovereignty shifted among political authorities while enslaved people’s legal status and owners’ claims continued. The event connects the independence transition to the limits of elite republican reforms.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Vicente Emparan

Caracas cabildo members

pardo representatives

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Cabildo of Caracas

Supreme Junta of Caracas

Spanish colonial government