Venezuela And Slavery

During the debate in the British Pariáment on the sugar duties, objections mving been made against receiving sugar from the above place, because slavery was still relained there, the Chancelor of the Exch?quer replied, "VVhat was he present state of Venezuela? Did it continue the slave truae? No: they had ong since abolisheJ t. Did they contin1e slnvery as a prt of the code of the republic? Quite the contrary. In 1822 hey passed a law that evcry individual bom af Ier that year should be f ree. - Therefore every man twenty-three years of age in Venezuela was at this moment ree, and every succeeding year added to