EVENT INFORMATION

4
Febrüari
1573

Agustín de Ancona seeks license for enslaved miner Francisco

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📅 4 Febrüari 1573 📍 Venezuela

On 4 February 1573, Agustín de Ancona asked Caracas’s cabildo for permission to use his enslaved man Francisco as a miner with his own crew. The petition records both the extraction economy and the colonial practice of licensing an enslaver to direct a person’s labor. It does not establish whether the license was granted.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Agustín de Ancona

Francisco

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Caracas cabildo

colonial mining