Francisco de Miranda’s martial law, issued at La Victoria, called free men aged fifteen to fifty-five to take up arms. The rule excluded enslaved men while applying to free Black and mixed-race men. Two days later, the Caracas legislature adopted a separate conscription plan for enslaved people. The contrast shows how republican authorities drew racial and legal lines around military citizenship as the independence crisis deepened.
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