EVENT INFORMATION

30
November
1552

Miguel escapes forced labor at the Buría gold mines

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📅 30 November 1552 📍 Venezuela

Fundación Empresas Polar’s chronology dates an enslaved African man named Miguel’s escape from punishment at the San Felipe de Buría mines to 30 November 1552. Its account describes his flight as the starting point of a larger revolt involving other African captives and Indigenous people. Accounts differ on the chronology of the wider uprising, which some place in 1552 and others in 1553. This record is limited to the dated escape reported by the chronology; it does not assign this date to the later attack or the full revolt.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Miguel

later known as Negro Miguel or Miguel de Buría

Pedro del Barrio

Organisaties in dit Evenement

San Felipe de Buría gold mines

Spanish colonial authorities