EVENT INFORMATION

11
Febrüari
1732

Governor’s campaign against Andresote offers a reward for his killing

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📅 11 Febrüari 1732 📍 Venezuela

While seeking to capture the maroon leader Andresote, governor Sebastián García de la Torre issued a proclamation declaring him a traitor and offering 600 pesos and pardon to whoever killed him. The chronology adds that an enslaved fugitive who informed on Andresote could receive freedom as well as the reward. Andresote’s rebellion opposed the Guipuzcoan Company’s monopoly and colonial rule in the Yaracuy region. The offer shows the state combining lethal repression with selective manumission to fragment resistance; it does not mean the movement had a single or fully documented abolition program.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Andresote

Sebastián García de la Torre

unnamed enslaved informants and rebels

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Spanish colonial government

Real Compañía Guipuzcoana de Caracas