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25
Sèptèmber
1728

Crown charter establishes the Guipuzcoan Company’s Venezuela trade privilege

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📅 25 Sèptèmber 1728 📍 Venezuela

A royal cédula established the Real Compañía Guipuzcoana de Caracas and granted it privileged trade between Spain and Venezuela. The company later helped organize the colonial export economy, including cacao production in which enslaved labor was central. Its charter was a commercial monopoly, not a slave-emancipation measure or a specific grant to traffic in enslaved people. Reading it alongside evidence on cacao and labor shows how imperial trade policy shaped the economy that depended on coerced work.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Philip V of Spain

José Patiño

Felipe de Aguirre

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Real Compañía Guipuzcoana de Caracas

Spanish Crown

Province of Venezuela