EVENT INFORMATION

13
Mei
1592

Royal cédula refers to enslaved pearl divers

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📅 13 Mei 1592 📍 Venezuela

A royal cédula dated 13 May refers to a Portuguese holder of a canoe with thirty enslaved divers and service workers, including people described as from Guinea, as well as Indigenous people brought from Brazil. This record places coerced African and Indigenous labor within pearl extraction around Margarita. It documents what the cédula mentions; it should not be read as independent proof of each person’s route or status beyond the wording preserved in the cited account.

Inisiá sesion pa gusta òf marká e relato aki.
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Personanan den e suseso aki

Unnamed enslaved divers and service workers

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Spanish Crown

Margarita pearl fisheries