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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2022

Edgardo Pérez Morales
Edgardo Pérez Morales
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Unraveling Abolition
Legal Culture and Slave Emancipation in Colombia
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absentee masters, 52–55
Africa, West, 193
African queen, freedom delivered by, 51–52, 56, 76–77, 112–113
Alvarado, Feliciana, 226–227
Álvarez, Pablo, 41–42
Angostura Congress, 130–131
Antilles, 193
Antioquia, 16, 19. See also manumission law, Antioquia; Restrepo, Félix José de
abolition in, Sarrazola on, 140–143
Bolívar retaking, 130
Bolívar retaking, government after, 130
Constitution of, 4, 110–111, 116–119, 133, 135–136, 140–141, 143–144, 216–217
Corral, J., as dictator of, 119–121, 128
Corral, J., in, 108, 111, 116–117, 120–124, 133–134, 163–165
culture of expectation in, 34–35, 110
Electoral and Constituent College in, 116
emancipation, expectations of, in, 18–22, 34–35, 38, 49–52, 70, 108–112, 125–127, 133–134, 136, 138, 140–144
emancipation, rumors of, in, 45–47, 49–52, 110, 126
emancipation in revolutionary, 125
equality in, 117, 133–134, 139
free womb principle in, 108, 111, 122, 142, 159
gold boom in, 48–49
gold mining in, 15, 17–18, 45–46, 109–110
independence declared by, 120–121
manumission boards in, 122–125
manumission in, 17–20, 109, 164–165, 213
after manumission law, Colombian, 160–161
manumission law of, 4, 108, 111, 122–127, 133–134, 136, 140–144, 159, 224
Martínez, Faustino, and royalist faction in, 130–131, 144
Martínez, J. M., in, 111–115, 119–120, 128–129
Medellín, 49–52
petition of slaves, 1812, in, 4, 110–112, 118–119, 121–123, 125–127, 133–136, 138–141, 164–165, 216–217, 223
political belonging and slaves in, 138–140, 143–144
protests in, 1781, 17–18, 45
Provincial Alliance in, 114–115
Provincial Congress in, 115
Provincial Junta, Constitution in, 115–116
Regency Council and, 115, 119–120
Restrepo, F. J., in, after Bolívar, 130
revolutionary, 110–111, 114–117, 119–120, 125–128, 134, 140–141, 223
saltpeter facilities, 125
Santa Fe, revolutionary, and, 115
slave insurrection feared in, 18–20, 46–48, 50–52, 117, 119, 134, 140–141, 223
slaves in, conditions for, 109–110
after Spanish Restoration, 128–130
antislavery laws. See manumission law, Antioquia; manumission law, Colombian republic
Antonio (slave), 4, 111–112, 119
Aponte, José Antonio, 193
aristocracy, in Colombian republic
persistence of, 149–150, 152–154, 159
seigneurial counter-exegesis of, 137, 154–160
Arrubla, Julián, 144
bajo la condición de esclavo (under the condition of slave), 64–65, 162–163
Balverde, Manuel Silvestre, 226–227
Barbacoas, Popayán, 22–24, 156
Barón, Estanislaa, 100–101
Benedict of Palermo (saint), 71
Bolívar, Simón, 129–131, 143–144, 148–150, 154
Bravo de Lagunas y Castilla, Pedro, 95
Bros y Arango, José Antonio de, 94–95
Buelta Lorenzana, Cayetano, 18–20
Caballero y Góngora, Antonio, 175–176
calidad, 48–49, 159
Candanga, 51–52, 71, 193
Candice (mythical Ethiopian queen), 51–52, 71, 193
captivity, slavery as, 164–166
Cartagena (province), 15–16, 38, 62–197. See also Mompox, Cartagena
Constitution of, 103–107, 225–226
coup in, 1810, 74–75
emancipation, expectations of, in, 40–42, 44–45, 98, 138–139, 208
equality in, 84, 86–87, 89–92, 98–99, 103–105, 107, 117, 133–134, 225–226
free people of color and revolutionary, 102–107
French Black conspiracy, alleged, in, 43–44, 105
French Blacks in, political equality and, 105
French Caribbean and, 38, 42–44, 106
after manumission law, Colombian, 160–161
natural law theories in, 85–87, 102–104, 106
Piñeres clan in revolutionary, 98–104, 127–128
privateering from, 105–106
Regency Council and, 101–103, 106
revolutionary, 98–108, 127–128
slave trade outlawed in, 105–106
slavery criticized in, 85–87, 92, 98–99, 106
slaves in, labor of, 38–40
Spanish Restoration and, 127–128
Toledo, toledistas in, 101–106, 127–128
urban centers of, 38–40
Castilian political concepts, 13
Castro, José Ignacio de, 72, 150–151
Castro family, 68, 72, 75, 150–151, 153
Catholicism. See Christianity
Caviedes, José María, 97
Cejudo, Anastasio, 43–44
Cevallos, Gregorio José, 94–96
Chávez, Hugo, 193
Chocó, 15, 68
Christianity, 71, 91–93, 96
African queen, freedom delivered by, and, 51–52
Antioquia slaves, 1812 petition of, and, 138–140, 164–165
manumission law, Antioquia, and, 124–125, 164
with Muslims, holy war of, 164
political belonging and, 138–140
redemption, of slaves, and, 164–165
sacred order, social, 24–26, 29–30, 180
Cicero, 65–67
citizenship, Colombian republic, 148–149
Clara (slave), 64
Colegio y Universidad de San Pedro, 90–91, 97, 99, 102
Colombia, Republic of. See also manumission law, Colombian republic
Angostura Congress, 130–131
aristocracy, persistence of, in, 149–150, 152–154, 159
citizenship in, 148–149
Constitution of, 137, 148–149, 225–226
equality in, 148–150, 225–226
free womb principle in, 2, 159
Fundamental law of the Republic of Colombia, 130
General Congress of,1821, 1–3, 122–123, 136
Ibargüen in, 137–138
manumission boards in, 125, 160–161
manumission law of, 1–4, 7–8, 122–123, 125, 136, 154–161, 224
manumission law of, opposition to, 137, 154–161
military of, 131–133, 136–137, 144
Popayán in, manumission law and, 137, 156–161
republicanism of, 136, 148–150
Restrepo, F. J., in, 132, 136, 148–150
runaway slaves in, reclaiming of, 131–132, 144
seigneurial counter-exegesis in, 137, 154–160
slavery surviving in, 149–150, 159–161
Spain fighting, 131–132
Spanish ancestry in, 151–153, 227
Comunero Revolution (1781), 17–18, 28, 30, 118, 199
authorities threatened by, 10–11, 13–15, 24–26, 29–30, 34, 57, 175–176, 182
Castilian political concepts, practices, in, 13
comuneros in, 13
criollos in, 12
French ideas influencing, authorities claiming, 26
gold mining and, 15–17
Indian communities in, 12
policies leading to, 12–13, 17
slavery at time of, 15–26
slaves and former slaves in, 13–15, 24, 34, 38, 48, 50–51, 186–187
Constitution, Antioquia, 116–117, 141
petition, 1812, of Antioquia slaves, and, 4, 110–111, 118–119, 135–136, 216–217
slavery and, 4, 110–111, 117–119, 133, 135–136, 140, 143–144, 216–217
Constitution, Cartagena, 103–107, 225–226
Constitution, Colombian republic, 137, 148–149, 225–226
Constitution, Spanish (1812), 105, 171
corporate societies, 37
Corral, Juan del, 164–165
in Antioquia, revolutionary, 116–117, 120–121
as Antioquia dictator, 119–121, 128
in Mompox, 84, 86–87, 90, 133–134
Restrepo, F. J., and, 108, 111, 120, 122, 163–164
on slavery, ending, 121–123, 161
on slavery, legislation against, 108, 111, 123–124, 133–134, 163–164
Corral, Ramón del, 87–90
Correa, Buenaventura, 132–133
Cortés, Casimiro, 156
Cortés, Marcos, 24
Cortes, Spanish, 81, 103, 105
criollos
calidad and, 48
in Comunero Revolution, 12
frustrations of, 30–31, 34, 73
Spain, government by, and, 73–74
Cruz, Vicente de la, 22–24
culture, of expectation. See expectation, culture of
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 30, 32
dignidad natural (natural dignity), 65
dignitas, 67
Dios, Juan de, 142
Electoral and Constituent College, Antioquia, 116
emancipation, expectations of, 4–5, 57, 83–84, 161, 165–166
African queen, freedom delivered by, 51–52, 56, 76–77, 112–113
in Antioquia, 18–22, 34–35, 38, 49–52, 70, 108–112, 133–134, 136, 138–139
in Antioquia, rumors, 45–47, 49–52, 110, 126
Antioquia manumission law and, 125–127, 134, 140–144
Antioquia slaves, 1812 petition of, 4, 110–112, 118–119, 121–123, 125–127, 133–136, 138–141, 164–165, 216–217, 223
Bolívar and, 131
in Cartagena, 40–42, 44–45, 98, 138–139, 208
culture of, 34–35, 37–38, 52, 57–58, 110
in dialogues, of slaves, 52
in gold mining community, 55–56, 61, 82, 155, 196
in judicial forum, 57–58, 134–135
in La Honda, 44–45, 98, 138–139
in Medellín, 49–52
in Mompox, 44–45, 98, 138–139, 208
Mompox fires and, 40–42
petitions, 59–60, 93–94, 208
petitions, plans for collective, 38, 50–51, 56
in Popayán, 52, 55–56, 61, 108, 155, 196
in Popayán, after civil war, 61–84
in Popayán, Tacón and, 76–79, 82–83, 203
royal decree, rumors of, 18–21, 37–38, 46–47, 49, 51–52, 57–58, 110, 136, 192–193
in San Juan, 55–56, 61, 155, 196
equality, 165–166
in Antioquia, 117, 133–134, 139
in Cartagena, 84, 86–87, 89–90, 98–99, 104–105, 107, 225–226
in Colombian republic, 148–150, 225–226
French Blacks and, in Cartagena, 105
Ibargüen on, 70–71, 83, 137–138, 148, 151–152
in Mompox, 84, 86–87, 89–92, 98–99, 103–105, 117, 133–134
republicanism and, 148
Restrepo, F. J., on, 67–70, 83, 148
equity, principle of, 147–148
esclavo (slave), 162–163
españoles, 105
Ethiopia, 51–52, 71, 193
exegesis, of liberty, 135–137, 161
expectation, culture of, 34–35, 37–38, 52, 57–58, 110
Expeditionary Army, Spanish, 127–129
faith, subordination and, 24–26, 29–30, 180
Ferdinand VII (Spanish king), 73, 120–121, 127–128
Fermín de Vargas, Pedro, 183
Fernández de Sotomayor, Juan, 91–92, 99, 103–104
Filangieri, Gaetano, 8–9, 14–15, 97, 103–104
Restrepo, F. J., and, 60, 67, 81
La scienza della legislazione, 9
on slavery, 9, 60, 97–98, 123
Finestrad, Joaquín de, 25–26, 29–30, 34, 67, 183, 199
Flour Wars (France), 28, 30
Fontalvo, Juan Santiago, 40–42
free people of color, Cartagena, revolutionary, and, 102–107
free womb principle. See also gradualism, in abolition
in Antioquia manumission law, 4, 108, 111, 122–123, 142, 159
manumission law, Colombian, and, 2, 159
Restrepo, F. J., and, 2, 4, 80, 111, 122, 159
Villavicencio on, 80, 122
French, 78–79, 82, 100–101
Spain invaded by Napoleon, 61, 72–74, 100
Spanish defeat of Napoleon, 120
Spanish war with, 1793, 26–27
French Blacks
Cartagena, conspiracy, alleged, of, 43–44, 105
negros franceses, 34, 42–43
stereotypes of, 43–44
French Caribbean. See also Guadeloupe; Haiti; Saint-Domingue
Cartagena and, 38, 42–44, 106
immigrants from, 32–34
slave insurrection, fear of, and, 14, 26–27, 29–30, 32–33, 36–37, 42–44, 57
French influence
Comunero Revolution and, 26
Papel periódico de la ciudad de Santafé de Bogotá on, 27–30, 47
Raynal, 14–15, 26–28, 34
threat of, 25–30, 32, 34, 47
French Revolution
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 30, 32
Flour Wars before, 28, 30
influence of, feared, 14, 25–29, 31–32, 36–37, 46–47, 182
pasquinades influenced by, 30
Fundamental law of the Republic of Colombia, 130
García de Toledo, José María, 101–106, 127–128
Garro, Vitorino, 142
General Congress of the Republic of Colombia (1821), 1–3, 122–123, 136
Girardot, Manuela, 221
glebe, servitude of the, 163–164
gold mining. See also San Juan mine, Popayán
Antioquia, gold boom in, 48–49
Antioquia, slaves in, 15, 17–18, 45–46, 109–110
economic importance of, 15–17, 22–24, 154
emancipation, expectations of, in, 55–56, 61, 82, 155, 196
Ibargüen and, 68–70, 150–153, 226–227
mazamorreros in, 18, 21, 45, 109
in Popayán, 15–17, 24, 52–56, 154
privilege, rank in, 68–71
San Juan, 54–56, 61, 76–77, 154–159, 196
Gómez Londoño, José Joaquín, 49–51
González clan, 42
González Manrique, Francisco, 96–97
Goths, Spaniards as, 153
Gracchi brothers, 87
gracias al sacar, 48–49, 192
gradualism, in abolition
captivity, redemption of, and, 165
free womb principle, 2, 80, 108, 111, 122, 142, 159
Restrepo, F. J., and, 2, 4, 9–10, 61–84, 111, 122, 136, 159
Villavicencio on, 61–84, 122
Gregorio (slave), 4, 119
Grueso, Manuel José, 69
Grueso de Agreda, Patricio, 71
Grueso family, 68–69, 71, 75, 150–151
Guadeloupe, 32–33, 42
Gutiérrez de Caviedes, José María, 97, 102
Gutiérrez de Piñeres, Gabriel, 99, 103–104
Gutiérrez de Piñeres, Germán, 86–87, 90, 99, 102
Gutiérrez de Piñeres, Juan Antonio, 88–89
Gutiérrez de Piñeres, Vicente, 86–87, 90, 99–103
Haiti
Haitian Revolution, 14, 36–37
Pétion of, 131
Humboldt, Alexander von, 53, 68, 88
Ibargüen, Pedro Antonio, 137
on aristocracy, persistence of, 149–150, 152–154, 159
Castro family and, 68, 72, 150–151, 153
emancipation, expectations of, and, 70
on equality, legal, 70–71, 83, 137–138, 148, 151–152
gold mining and, 68–70, 150–153, 226–227
Grueso family and, 68–69, 71, 150–151
political belonging and, 137–138
Restrepo, F. J., and, 6–8, 60, 67–70, 72–73, 83, 148–149, 153
Indian communities
in Comunero Revolution, 12
Tubará, 91–92
Islam, 164
Jamaica, 120, 128, 145–146
Jaramillo, Salvadora, 112–114, 121, 131, 145–146
Joaquín (slave), 4, 111–112, 119
judicial forum, 5–8, 144
emancipation, expectations of, in, 57–58, 134–135
equity in, 147–148
exegesis, of liberty, in, 135–137, 161
Martínez, J. M., and, 136–137, 147–148
political belonging in, slaves on, 138
junta
Antioquia, 115–116
Cartagena, 74–75, 101–104
Popayán, 75–77, 82–83
Santa Fe, 74–75, 114–115
juntas, appeal to, 74–75
juntistas, Popayán, 76–78, 202
La Honda, 95–96, 98
political belonging and slaves in, 138–139
slave action in, 44–45, 138
legal action, slaves taking. See also Ibargüen, Pedro Antonio; Martínez, José María; petitions
Bravo de Lagunas on, 95
Cevallos, 94–96
custom as law in, 95–96
in Mompox, 94–95, 208
papelistas hired in, 93–96, 144–146, 152
San Miguel and, 94–95
tribunes of the plebs and, 94
legal quandary, slavery as, 162–164
legal reform
modern philosophy and, 8–9, 60, 65–66, 173
Restrepo, F. J., and, 59–60
legal system, Spanish, slaves under, 4, 93
legal vocabulary, of enslavement and emancipation, 64–65
Lemos Hurtado, Mariano, 66
libertad servil (servile freedom), 144–145, 147
libertadores, 129–131, 143–144, 154
liberty, exegesis of, 135–137, 161
litigation
as cultural exchange, 5
in judicial documents, 6–7
in judicial forum, 6–8
as political sphere, 165–166
llaneros, 129
Londoño, Javiera, 17–20
Londoño Piedrahíta, Sancho, 18–20
magistrates
on modern philosophy, legal reform and, 8–9
protests,1781, and, 17
visions of, competing, 8
Maldonado, José Antonio, 96–97
manumission
in Antioquia, 17–20, 109, 164–165, 213
in Popayán, difficulty of obtaining, 93–94, 198
redemption and, 164–165
after Tacón, rejected, 78–79
manumission boards, 122–125, 160–161
manumission law, Antioquia (1814), 134, 224
Christianity and, 124–125, 164
Colombian manumission law and, 4, 122–123, 125, 136
emancipation, expectations of, and, 125–127, 134, 140–144
free womb principle in, 4, 108, 111, 122–123, 142, 159
goals achieved by, 122–123
manumission boards under, 122–125
petition, 1812, of Antioquia slaves, and, 111, 123, 125–127, 133–134, 140–141
political belonging and, 143–144
on redemption, 164
Sarrazola and, 140–143
stereotypes in, 124
manumission law, Colombian republic (1821), 1–2, 7–8, 224
Antioquia manumission law and, 4, 122–123, 125, 136
campaign to modify, 156–159
emancipations not stimulated by, 2–3, 160–161
free womb principle and, 2, 159
manumission boards under, 125, 160–161
opposition to, 137, 154–161
Popayán and, 137, 156–161
Torres, G., and, 154–159
Mariquita, 17
Martínez, Faustino, 116, 119
in Antioquia, royalist faction under, 130–131, 144
Martínez, J. M., seeking freedom from, 144–148
Martínez, J. M., with, 114, 120, 128, 144–146
Martínez, Francisco, 114–115
Martínez, Gabino, 112–114
Martínez, José María, 115, 119
freedom claimed by, 144–148
Jaramillo and, 112–114, 121, 131, 145–146
in judicial forum, 136–137, 147–148
with Martínez, Faustino, 114, 120, 128, 144–146
in military, 131–133, 136–137, 144
murder trial, execution of, 132–133, 221
as runaway, 128–129, 131–132, 136–137
Martínez, Juan Esteban, 114, 116, 130, 144, 146–147
Martínez, Manuel Antonio, 116, 130
Martínez, Manuel María, 114–115
Martínez de Pinillos, Pedro, 90–91, 99
mazamorreros, 18, 21, 45, 109
Medellín, Antioquia, 49–52
Mier, Francisco Javier de, 208
Mier clan, 42
Miranda, Francisco de, 183
modern philosophy. See also Filangieri, Gaetano
legal reform and, 8–9, 60, 65–66, 173
in Mompox, teaching, 90–91
in Popayán, 66
Restrepo, F. J., and, 9, 60, 65–67, 81, 90–91, 123
Molla, José Antonio, 208
Mompox, Cartagena, 39, 94–95, 210
Cartagena, revolution of, and, 98–105
college in, 90–92
Corral, J., in, 84, 86–87, 90, 133–134
Corral, R., in, 87–90
economy of, 88, 206
emancipation, expectations of, in, 40–42, 44–45, 98, 138–139, 208
equality in, 84, 86–87, 89–92, 98–99, 103–105, 117, 133–134
fires in, 39–42, 140–141
flood, levy construction in, 100
free people of color and revolutionary, 102–107
La Honda, 95–96, 98, 138–139
La Honda, slave action in, 44–45, 138
legal action in, slaves taking, 94–95, 208
migration into, 87–89
natural law theories in, 85–87, 102–104, 106
from Regency Council, declaring independence, 102–103
Santa Coa, estate of, 208
slavery criticized in, 85–87, 92, 98–99, 106
Sociedad Económica in, 86, 89–90
monarchy, justice emanating from, 51–52, 57–58, 193
monarchy, Spanish. See Spanish monarchy
Montesquieu, 97–98, 103–104, 123, 163–164
Morillo, Pablo, 127–129
Mosquera, Juan Manuel, 77, 79
murder, slaves tried for, 186
Muslims, 164
Napoleon Bonaparte, 78–79, 82, 100–101
in Spain, defeat of, 120
Spain invaded by, 61, 72–74, 100
Nariño, Antonio, 26–27, 30–32, 34, 182–184
natural dignity (dignidad natural), 65
natural law theories
in Mompox, 85–87, 102–104, 106
Restrepo, F. J., and, 85–86, 97, 106
slavery, criticism of, and, 8–9, 84–87, 92–93, 96–98
war, law of, and, 96–97
nature, rights and, 8
negros franceses, 34, 42–43
negros libertinos, 71
New Kingdom of Granada. See Santa Fe; specific provinces
Nieto, Diego Antonio (governor), 71–72
Olave, Vicente, 151–152
Ottomans, 164
Papel periódico de la ciudad de Santafé de Bogotá (gazette), 27–30, 47
papelistas, 93–96, 144–146, 152
Pardo, Andrés, 192
pasquinades affair (1794), 30, 54–55, 66, 182
Pelayo (slave), 21–22
Pérez de Rublas, Juan Pablo, 47–48, 116
Peru, uprisings in, 14, 24
Pétion, Alexandre, 131
petition, 1812, of Antioquia slaves, 111–112, 121–122, 223
on captivity, 164–165
Christianity and, 138–140, 164–165
Constitution, Antioquia, and, 4, 110–111, 118–119, 135–136, 216–217
manumission law, Antioquia, and, 111, 123, 125–127, 133–134, 140–141
political belonging and, 139–141
petition, of Ibargüen, 68–69
petitions, for emancipation, 59–60, 93–94
in Mompox, 208
plans for collective, 38, 50–51, 56
Piñeres clan, 98–104, 127–128
piñeristas, 101–105
plebs, tribunes of the, 94
political belonging
Antioquia manumission law, Constitution, and, 143–144
Antioquia slaves, 1812 petition of, and, 139–141
Christianity and, 138–140
Ibargüen and, 137–138
in judicial forum, slaves on, 138
language expressing, 138–139
legal ambiguity of slave, 163
Popayán, 16. See also San Juan mine, Popayán; Tacón, Miguel
absentee masters in, 52–55
Barbacoas, 22–24, 156
civil war in, 76–78, 120
Colombian, slaveholding patricians in, 149
emancipation, expectations of, after civil war, 61–84
emancipation, expectations of, in, 52, 55–56, 61, 76–79, 108, 155, 196, 203
on emancipation, Restrepo, F. J., in, 59
gold mining elites in, losses of, 154
gold mining in, 15–17, 24, 52–56
juntistas, anti-Regency movement in, 76–78, 202
manumission in, difficulty of obtaining, 93–94, 198
manumission law, Colombian, and, 137, 156–161
modern philosophy in, 66
pro-Regency coalition in, 75–79
pro-Regency troops occupying, 119–120
protests in, 1781 and 1782, 17, 22–24
Royal Mint, 15–17, 22–24, 83, 154
San Juan, 54–56, 61, 76–77, 154–159, 196
slave insurrection as threat in, 22–24, 53–54, 71–72
slave market in, 62
slaves in, protest, organization of, 22–24, 54–56
after Tacón, manumission promise rejected in, 78–79
Tacón in, 75–79, 202
Tacón in, slaves and, 56, 76–79, 82–83, 155, 203
Torres, G., in, 55–56, 76–77, 137, 154–160
Tumaco, 22–24, 54
Villavicencio in, 79–80
prescripción, freedom by, 64, 147
privateering, 105–106
privilege, 68–71
prophecy, 40–42, 188
Pufendorf, Samuel von, 8–9, 14–15, 67, 96–98
Quito, 31–32, 73, 183
Rafael (slave), 160
Raynal, Thomas François, 14–15, 26–28, 34
redemption, 164–165
Regency Council, Spanish, 73
Antioquia and, 115, 119–120
Cartagena and, 101–103, 106
Mompox declaring independence from, 102–103
Popayán, pro-Regency troops occupying, 119–120
in Popayán, movement against, 76–78, 202
Popayán coalition supporting, 75–79
Villavicencio and, 79–80
regicide, 28, 31–32
representaciones, 13, 118, 175, 216–217
republicanism, 136, 140, 148–150
Restoration. See Spanish Restoration, 1814
Restrepo, Félix José de
in Antioquia, after Bolívar, 130
on aristocracy, persistence of, 149–150
after civil war, 79–83
in Colombian republic, 132, 136, 148–150
Corral, J., and, 108, 111, 120, 122, 163–164
education of, 65–66
on equality, 67–70, 83, 148
free womb principle and, 2, 4, 80, 111, 122, 159
at General Congress, Colombian, 1–3, 136
gradualism, in abolition, and, 2, 4, 9–10, 61–84, 111, 122, 136, 159
Ibargüen and, 6–8, 60, 67–70, 72–73, 83, 148–149, 153
in-laws of, 62–63
as juntista, 75–78
as lawyer, 5–8, 59–60, 63–66, 147, 198
on manumission board, 125
modern philosophy and, 9, 60, 65–67, 81, 90–91, 123
natural law theories and, 85–86, 97, 106
on slave, concept of, 163–165
as slaveholder, 4, 62–64, 111–112, 119, 159, 229
on slavery, ending, 1, 3, 9–10, 59, 80, 121, 161
on slavery, legislation against, 1–2, 5, 61–62, 79–82, 84, 106, 108, 111, 123, 125–126, 134, 136, 150, 159, 163–164
social position, ambivalent, of, 62–63
after Spanish Restoration, 128
Villavicencio and, 61–84, 122, 125–126
Restrepo, José Manuel, 116, 128, 149
as Antioquia political governor, 130
slave insurrection, fear of, and, 117, 140, 143
Restrepo clan, slaves of, 49–50, 119
Rieux, Juan Francisco de, 27, 30–32, 34, 184
rights, nature and, 8
Roman Catholicism. See Christianity
Romero, Mauricio, 103–104
Romero, Pedro, 101–105, 127–128
Rosa, Alejandro de la, 64
royal emancipation decree, rumors of. See emancipation, expectations of
Royal Mint, 15–17, 22–24, 83, 154
rumor, 45–47, 191
runaway slaves
in Colombian republic, reclaiming, 131–132, 144
Martínez, J. M., as, 128–129, 131–132, 136–137
sacred order, social, 24–26, 29–30, 180
Sáenz de Ortíz, Melchor, 85, 98
Saint-Domingue, 26–27, 29–30, 32–33, 42–43, 74
Salcedo, Víctor, 50
saltpeter facilities, Antioquia, 125
San Juan mine, Popayán, 54–55
emancipation, expectations of, and, 55–56, 61, 155, 196
slave leaders of, 155
stereotypes and slaves of, 157–158
Torres, G., and, 55–56, 76–77, 137, 154–159
Torres y Tenorio family and, 54–56, 154–155, 194
San Miguel, José Ignacio de, 94–95, 150–151
San Pedro College. See Colegio y Universidad de San Pedro
Santa Coa, estate of, 208
Santa Cruz y Espejo, Eugenio de, 183
Santa Fe, 13, 24–25, 61, 127–128
criollos in, 30–31
education in, 65–66, 90
Papel periódico de la ciudad de Santafé de Bogotá, 27–30, 47
pasquinades affair in, 30, 54–55, 66, 182
Rieux and, 27, 30–32, 34, 184
viceroy deposed in, 1810, 74–75, 114–115
Sarasti, Agustín, 62–63, 72, 75–78
Sarasti, Francisco, 62–63
Sarasti, José Joaquín, 62–63, 69
Sarasti family, 62–63, 75–78
Sarmiento, Pablo, 95
Sarrazola, Cornelio, 136, 140–143
La scienza della legislazione (Filangieri), 9
Segura, Guillermo Antonio, 150–152
seigneurial counter-exegesis
in Colombian republic, 137, 154–160
stereotypes and, 154–159
of Torres, G., 137, 156–159
serfs, 163–164
servile freedom (libertad servil), 144–145, 147
slave (esclavo), 162–163
slave conspiracies, allegations of, 143, 189
of French Blacks, 43–44, 105
Gómez Londoño on, 49–51
after Haitian Revolution, 36–37
Ibargüen and, 72
Sarrazola and, 141–143
slave insurrection, fear of, 36–38, 47, 186
in Antioquia, 18–20, 46–48, 50–52
in Antioquia, revolutionary, 117, 119, 134, 140–141, 223
Candanga and, 51–52
French Caribbean and, 14, 26–27, 29–30, 32–33, 36–37, 42–44, 57
in Medellín, 50–52
Mompox fires and, 39–42
Pérez de Rublas and, 47–48
in Popayán, 22–24, 53–54, 71–72
Restrepo, J. M., and, 117, 140, 143
after Tacón, 78–79
Visadías and, 47–49
slave trade, abolition of, 2, 105–106
Sociedad Económica, 86, 89–90
Soto, María Magdalena, 85
Spain
Bolívar fighting, 129–130
British war with, 43
Cartagena privateering against, 105–106
Castilian political concepts, in Comunero Revolution, 13
Colombia fighting, 131–132
Constitution of, 1812, 105, 171
Cortes in, 81, 103, 105
criollos and government by, 73–74
Expeditionary Army of, 127–129
Ferdinand VII, 73, 120–121, 127–128
French influence, threat of, and, 32
French war with, 1793, 26–27
legal system under, slaves and, 4, 93
Napoleon defeated in, 120
Napoleon invading, 61, 72–74, 100
Regency Council of, 73, 75–80, 101–103, 106, 115, 119–120, 202
as slavery, domination by, 61–62, 74, 79, 82–84, 108, 110–111, 120–121, 123, 127, 133–136, 229
Spanish Abolitionist Society, 173
Spanish ancestry, in Colombian republic, 151–153, 227
Spanish monarchy
crisis of, 83–84
emancipation decree, rumors of, 51–52, 57–58
loyalty to, 27–30
opposition to, burgeoning, 31–32, 60–61, 183
Spanish Restoration, 1814,
Antioquia after, 128–130
Cartagena and, 127–128
Restrepo, F. J., after, 128
stereotypes, 37, 57, 71–72, 78–79, 148–150
in Antioquia manumission law, 124
of French Blacks, 43–44
San Juan slaves and, 157–158
seigneurial counter-exegesis and, 154–159
Torres, G., using, 155–159
subject to servitude (sujeto a servidumbre), 162–163
subordination, faith and, 24–26, 29–30, 180
sujeto a servidumbre (subject to servitude), 162–163
Tacón, Miguel, 56, 75–76
junta agreed to by, 77, 202
San Juan and, 76–77, 155
slaves promised freedom by, 76–79, 82–83, 155, 203
taconistas, 75, 77
Tenorio, José, 54
tertulias, 27, 34
toledistas, 101–102
Tolrá, Carlos, 130
Torre Velarde, Count of, 32, 182
Torres, Camilo, 54–55, 66, 73–78, 127–128
Torres, Gerónimo
enslaved servants of, 160
manumission law, Colombian, and, 154–159
San Juan and, 55–56, 76–77, 137, 154–159
seigneurial counter-exegesis of, 137, 156–159
stereotypes used by, 155–159
Torres, Jerónimo Francisco de, 54–55
Torres, Juan Camilo, 155
Torres, Manuel, 56, 194
Torres y Tenorio family, 54–56, 154–155, 194
tribunes of the plebs, 94
Tubará, Indians of, 91–92
Tumaco, Popayán, 22–24, 54
tyrannicide, 31–32
under the condition of slave (bajo la condición de esclavo), 64–65, 162–163
United States, 81, 103–104, 183
Vargas, Pedro Fermín de, 183
Venezuela, 129–130, 193
Viana, Antonio de, 50–51
viceroy, deposing of, 1810, 74–75, 114–115
Villavicencio, Antonio de, 82
on gradualism, in abolition, 61–84, 122
Restrepo, F. J., and, 61–84, 122, 125–126
Visadías, Francisco José, 47–49, 192
war, law of, natural law and, 96–97
West Africa, 193
womb, freedom of. See free womb principle

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