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The practice of slavery in present-day Colombia dates back to the pre-Spanish era and persisted until its definitive abolition in 1851. This practice involved the human trafficking of indigenous individuals, initially among indigenous groups such as the Chibchas , the Muzos , or the Panches [ 1 ] , and later by European traders, particularly ...
They were forcibly taken to Colombia to replace the Indigenous population, which was rapidly decreasing due to extermination genocide campaigns, disease and forced labor. Map of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Cartagena was the largest slave port in Colombia. "A Gold-Washing Technique, Province of Barbacoas" by Manuel María Paz (1853).
The largest number of slaves were in Cauca and the attacks on the Church were especially sensitive in the extreme south. The rebellion was led by the brothers Sergio and Julio Arboleda Pombo, landowners and powerful slave owners who represented that sector of the population, which saw its wealth threatened by the liberation of the slaves.
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Cartagena is a sea port on the coast of modern-day Colombia. It was 1 of 3 ports that the Spanish crown allowed slave ships to travel to as of the year 1615. Of these 3 ports Cartagena was the most easy to access without illness. The lack of ports where slave ships were allowed to land, led to an increase in privateering around the port of ...
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Afro-Colombian Day, [1] or Día de la Afrocolombianidad is an annual commemoration of the abolition of slavery in Colombia on May 21, 1851. May 21 is also the day of the first established free town in the Americas, Palenque de San Basilio. Afro-Colombian Day was first celebrated in 2001. [2]
Helg, Aline, Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770-1835. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 2004. Heuman, Gad and Trevor Graeme Burnard, eds. The Routledge History of Slavery. New York: Taylor and Francis 2011. Hünefeldt, Christine. Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor among Lima's Slaves, 1800-1854. Berkeley ...