Bishop Miguel Gerónimo de Ballesteros asked the Crown to send 30 enslaved Africans to maintain Coro's acequia and dam, originally built by Indigenous labor. His request linked African enslavement to infrastructure and to the earlier coerced labor of Indigenous communities; it does not establish that 30 people arrived.
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What did Coro's bishop request in 1550?
Coro's 1550 request linked African forced labor to an irrigation work first built by Indigenous labor.
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Ballesteros described the acequia and dam as previously built by Indigenous people.