Slavery in Colombia

Benkos Bioho, a former African king who was enslaved and managed to escape, forming the village of San Basilio de Palenque.

Slavery was practiced in Colombia from the beginning of the 16th century until its definitive abolition in 1851. This process consisted of trafficking in people of African and indigenous origin, first by the European colonizers from Spain and later by the commercial elites of the Republic of New Granada, the country that contained what is present-day Colombia.


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