José Leonardo Chirino

Birth Name
José Leonardo Chirino
Date of Birth
17 April 1754
Birth Town
Curimaguah, Venezuela

A freeborn son of a slave and Native Amerindian who took inspiration while on a commercial trip to Haiti, where he witnessed the early stages of the Haitian slave rebellion. Chirino would go on to lead the 1795 slave revolt in Coro, Venezuela with José Caridad González.

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