EVENT INFORMATION

24
Sèptèmber
1852

Government asks governors for registers of enslaved people

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📅 24 Sèptèmber 1852 📍 Venezuela

On 24 September 1852 the Interior ministry requested registers of enslaved people from named governors. The census order made the remaining enslaved population legible to the state as the government and provincial boards debated funding and gradual manumission. Such records could support liberation claims, but also documented people for administration and valuation.

Inisiá sesion pa gusta òf marká e relato aki.
🔖 Marká

Personanan den e suseso aki

enslaved people

provincial governors

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Venezuelan Interior ministry

provincial governments