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8
Sèptèmber
1601

Coro's church leadership plans to buy 12 enslaved Africans for construction

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📅 8 Sèptèmber 1601 📍 Venezuela

Church officials in Coro proposed using church funds to buy 12 enslaved Africans from Maracaibo to advance building work. Their appeal framed Indigenous population decline as a labor shortage, making visible how colonial institutions shifted coercion from Indigenous to African workers.

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Fray Domingo de Salinas

Coro church officials

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Catholic Church in Coro

Spanish Crown