10 Centavos Abolition of Slavery

Peru issued this piece in 1954 to mark the centenary of the abolition of slavery under President Ramón Castilla, who signed the emancipation decree on December 3, 1854 — funded, with considerable irony, by revenue from guano exports worked in part by Chinese indentured laborers. Castilla also abolished indigenous tribute the same year, consolidating two sweeping reforms under a single political maneuver during his second presidency.