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Ecuador - Claim by Casimiro Cortez, miner

Claim by Casimiro Cortez, miner of Barbacoas, who alleges he bought the haciendas La Rinconada and Michuquez Tulcán, in order to have beef to feed the 400 slaves of his mines and that the Council of Ibarra prevents the exit of the cattle.

Heritage document in the National Archive of Ecuador in the series called Mines, box 5, file: 6, number of pages 21.

Document reporting of slaves in mines located in the province of Tulcán. 

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Ecuador

State of conservation

Good

Type of document

Manuscript

Current Use

Research

Publication date

1808 Diciembre 1

Author

Minero Casimiro Cortez