Caracas cabildo minutes noted that Portuguese trader Rui Gómez Bravo, sailing with a licensed slave ship bound for Cartagena, was forced to disembark at La Guaira. The source does not establish a reliable number of people aboard, so this entry avoids later estimates. The episode shows how maritime commerce and colonial port administration shaped the forced movement of enslaved Africans along the Venezuelan coast.
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What happened to the licensed slave ship mentioned in Caracas minutes in June 1590?
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Explanation
Rui Gómez Bravo’s ship, bound for Cartagena, was forced to disembark at La Guaira.
The 1590 source reliably establishes that exactly 172 enslaved people were aboard Rui Gómez Bravo’s vessel.
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Explanation
The study says the cabildo record mentions the forced landing but the figure 172 comes from a later secondary account and is not treated as reliable here.