Thousands of cultivators and residents, many described by the Venezuelan chronology as being of African origin, entered Caracas with Juan Francisco de León and reached Chacao. They demanded the end of the Guipuzcoan Company’s monopoly. Their mobilization brought African-descended rural people into a major confrontation with colonial commercial power. The sources frame the uprising as a broad anti-monopoly movement, not as a documented campaign to abolish slavery; enslaved and free statuses should not be collapsed into one category.
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Who joined De León’s march into Caracas on 19 April 1749?
The chronology describes thousands of cultivators and residents of African origin entering Caracas.
The African-descended residents who joined De León’s movement were all documented as enslaved.
The chronology describes African-origin residents and cultivators but does not establish that all were enslaved.