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Ecuador - Claim by the miners of Playa de Oro

Claim by the miners of Playa de Oro because they are charged contributions in advance, indicating that they have had to put up with a slave rebellion.

 

Heritage document in the National History Archive, Series Mines, box 5, file 17, number of pages: 3.

 

La Tola is the area in which the document was written, it is part of the Province of Esmeraldas, to the north of Ecuador, in a mining area with slave labour force and it borders Tumaco in Colombia.        

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Ecuador

State of conservation

Good

Type of document

Manuscript

Current Use

Research

Publication date

1826 Noviembre 29