The treaty signed in Caracas on 15 March 1839 declared the African slave trade permanently abolished and allowed specified searches of suspected ships. It defined the prohibited trade narrowly: transporting enslaved people already in Venezuela from one place to another was explicitly excluded, even for sale. The treaty attacked transatlantic importation while preserving domestic slaveholding and sales.
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What important limit did the 1839 Venezuela–Britain treaty include?
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The treaty banned the African trade but explicitly did not prohibit domestic transport or sale.
The 1839 treaty banned domestic sale of enslaved people inside Venezuela.
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It explicitly excluded internal transport and sale from its definition of the trade.