Caracas councilors proposed closing pulperías after the nine o’clock bell, citing enslaved and Indigenous service workers who brought produce to trade at night. The account also says shopkeepers cheated these sellers and recounts a killing when a man defended a Black woman who kept a shop open late. The record exposes both the restrictions imposed on workers and their participation in urban exchange, including Black women’s commerce.
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Why did Caracas councilors propose closing pulperías at night in August 1668?
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Explanation
Councilors cited enslaved and Indigenous workers who sold produce after the bell and described exploitation by shopkeepers.
The Caracas night-trading debate records that some shopkeepers cheated workers who brought produce to sell.
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The council account discusses deception of enslaved and Indigenous sellers.