A captain contributes three enslaved people to the campaign against Nirgua

The Caracas cabildo petitioned the Crown for permission to bring 1,000 enslaved Africans into the province. This is a record of local officials seeking a larger coerced workforce, not evidence that...

A prosecutor of the Royal Audiencia of Santo Domingo ordered the seizure of property belonging to former governors Pedro Fajardo and Alonso Suárez del Castillo. A related Caracas record involved a...

Royal officers investigated a slave ship lost near Capatárida on the Falcón coast. After an accident, only two enslaved Africans remained in the area; the ship continued to Maracaibo, where the...

A cabildo order told shopkeepers not to conduct business with enslaved Black and mulatto people. The notice was proclaimed by Juan, a mulatto in a city official's service. It records restrictions on...

The Caracas cabildo record identifies Salvador, a Black man, as a public town crier. The brief entry offers evidence of an African-descended person performing a visible civic role, while the record...

Caracas cabildo records discussed lots given to Black and mulatto residents and later listed lots they purchased. The minutes offer evidence of Black and mixed-race residents making claims to urban...

Caracas cabildo minutes recorded an enslaved Black woman belonging to Andrés García as suffering from Hansen’s disease, then called the disease of Saint Lazarus. The brief entry places a woman’s...

A Cocorote mine register recorded a birth on 9 August 1643 in a ledger titled “Memoria de los negros y negras que nacen en mi tiempo.” The child’s name is not preserved in the published summary. The...

Francisca González, identified as a free mulatta, petitioned Caracas’s cabildo for half a lot; the council granted it. Her successful claim shows a free woman of African descent negotiating for...

The Cocorote mine record of births lists a child born on 15 May 1646. No name or details of the parents survive in the published summary. Read alongside the other dated entries in the same register,...