A Caracas cabildo record copied a will attributed to Rafael de Flettes. It directed his executors to sell six enslaved people judicially, for cash or on credit, and place the proceeds into a rent instrument. The clause makes explicit the conversion of enslaved people into capital and ongoing income. The record calls them “pieces” and “mine pieces,” language that exposes the accounting logic of the estate.
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What did Rafael de Flettes’s will direct regarding six enslaved people?
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The clause ordered judicial sale and placed the proceeds into a rent instrument.
Rafael de Flettes’s will directed that six enslaved people be sold and the proceeds invested.
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Explanation
The will’s clause directed a judicial sale and placement of the proceeds into a rent instrument.