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Despite the gradual emancipation of most black slaves in Peru, slavery continued along the Pacific coast of South America throughout the 19th century, as Peruvian slave traders kidnapped Polynesians, primarily from the Marquesas Islands and Easter Island and forced them to perform physical labour in mines and in the guano industry of Peru and ...
The first black inhabitants were brought to Peru with the establishment of the Spanish Empire in the current Peruvian territories, who took them as slaves to work productive activities where a strong workforce was required, in the case of men, such as mining and agriculture, and women to work in the domestic service of the most affluent classes ...
After the gradual emancipation of most black slaves, slavery continued along the Pacific coast of South America throughout the 19th century. Peruvian slave traders kidnapped Polynesians, primarily from the Marquesas Islands and Easter Island, and forced them to perform physical labour in mines and the guano industry of Peru and Chile. [6]
Armando Normand was born in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in around 1880. [18] It is believed he spent the first twenty years of his life in and around Cochabamba. [2] The little information about Normand's early life comes from an interview conducted by Peter MacQueen in 1913, during which Normand said: [18] [2]
In Peru, the president José de San Martín established "the freedom of wombs" for those born after the declaration of independence in 1821. [ 5 ] Venezuela endorsed a similar law in 1821, [ 6 ] as well as Ecuador , [ 7 ] Uruguay in 1825, [ 8 ] Paraguay in 1842, [ 9 ] and Brazil in 1871.
According to Linda Newson of King's College London, Perez became "one of the most prominent slave traders in Lima, Peru, in the 1620s and 1630s, when he was responsible for the importation of about 300 to 400 African slaves a year". [4] Here he established himself as the richest man in Peru of the day.
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Alonso de Sandoval, SJ (7 December 1576 - 25 December 1652) was a Spanish Jesuit priest and missionary in Colombia.He devoted most of his life to the evangelization of Black slaves arriving in the Colombian port city of Cartagena, and was the mentor of Saint Peter Claver.