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10
Mart
1854

Monagas asks Congress to abolish slavery while protecting owners’ claims

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📅 10 Mart 1854 📍 Venezuela

On 10 March 1854 President José Gregorio Monagas addressed Congress during debate over abolition. He urged passage of a just law while insisting that abolition not violate slaveholders’ property claims. The proposal helped accelerate abolition, but framed emancipation together with compensation to owners—an important limit on the transfer of wealth or land to the people whose labor had created it.

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José Gregorio Monagas

enslaved people

slaveholders

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Venezuelan Congress

Executive government