EVENT INFORMATION

23
Mei
1836

Congress raises the legal whipping limit for enslaved people

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📅 23 Mei 1836 📍 Venezuela

A law approved on 23 May 1836 expanded owners’ authority to punish enslaved people and raised the permitted maximum from 29 to 100 lashes. Fundación Empresas Polar describes it as a regression beyond the Crown’s 1789 rules. The date records a state decision that strengthened coercive power over enslaved people’s bodies.

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enslaved people

enslavers

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Venezuelan Congress

provincial authorities