EVENT INFORMATION

24
Novèmber
1791

Royal cédula extends slave-trade privileges to Caracas province

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📅 24 Novèmber 1791 📍 Venezuela

A royal cédula dated 24 November 1791 granted Spanish and foreign traders conditional permission to traffic enslaved Africans with the Captaincy General of Caracas and other Spanish American territories. It designated ports including La Guaira, Puerto Cabello, Maracaibo, Cumaná, and Barcelona. The decree promoted colonial agriculture through expanded trafficking; it did not itself record how many people arrived.

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Carlos IV

Spanish and foreign slave traders

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Spanish Crown

Captaincy General of Caracas