Julio Arboleda

Julio Arboleda Pombo (9 July 1817, Barbacoas, Colombia – 1862) was a Colombian poet, journalist, and politician. He was also a prominent slave owner, and led a failed rebellion in 1851 with the aim of preventing the abolition of slavery in the country.
According to Hernández, on April 23, 1847, Julio Arboleda, a slaveholder, politician, and powerful
landlord, sold to Pablo del Solar (in Peru) ninety nine slaves and their one hundred and
thirteen “free” children.
These children became slaves as soon as they set foot on Peruvian territory.
Slaveholders exported some pregnant slaves, and once they gave birth, their children were brought to Colombia as slaves (Rodríguez 1980).
The various strategies that slave owners and politicians used to outwit the authorities while continuing slavery-related lucrative activities, confirm that the ‘Law of Free Wombs of 1821’ and its regulatory
decrees and complementary laws, helped perpetuate slavery by other mean