Representatives of the province’s cabildos instructed procurator Simón de Bolívar to present 27 petitions to the Council of the Indies. These included a request to import 3,000 enslaved people from Guinea and a demand to restore Indigenous personal service. The record reveals colonial elites describing coerced labor as an economic necessity and seeking to expand African enslavement while preserving control over Indigenous labor. It records a petition, not evidence that the full request was granted.
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What did provincial councils ask Simón de Bolívar to seek in 1590?
The instructions included requests both to import enslaved Africans and to restore Indigenous personal service.
The 1590 instructions included a petition to import 3,000 enslaved people from Guinea.
The request appears among 27 instructions provincial cabildos gave their procurator.