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Ecuador - Paper by the Zaruma Town Hall on mines

Paper from Zaruma’s town hall reporting the discovery of new gold, silver and copper mines and requesting 500 or 600 black slaves to start works.

Heritage document in the National Archive of Ecuador in the series called Mines, Box 4, File 22, number of pages: 4.

Document reporting on the need for slave labour in the mines.

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Other data of interest

Ecuador

State of conservation

Good

Type of document

Manuscript

Current Use

Research

Publication date

1796 Noviembre 12