The Supreme Junta of Caracas prohibited the international introduction and trade of enslaved people. The measure did not emancipate people already enslaved, end domestic sale, or dismantle slaveholding. It restricted a supply route that had supported colonial bondage and was reaffirmed in the 1811 Constitution. The Junta’s decision shows an early republican government drawing a boundary around the Atlantic trade while leaving internal slavery largely untouched.
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The 1810 trade ban freed all people already enslaved in Venezuela.
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It restricted international trade and importation, not slavery inside the country.