Abstract

ROSAS GUEVARA, Martha Isabel. From Slaves to Citizens and Vagabonds. Representations of Blackness in the Colombian Legal Discourse during the 19th Century. Historelo.rev.hist.reg.local [online]. 2014, vol.6, n.12, pp.271-302. ISSN 2145-132X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/historelo.v6n12.42119.

Through a historiographical narrative drawn from legal texts, this paper aims to interpret the absence and presence of black people in the nineteenth-century legal discourse produced once the independence of Spain was obtained in the early nineteenth century. Considering that the imagination of a State Republican represented a challenge for the local elites, -which despite of preaching rhetorically the consolidation of a national community based on the equality and the democracy-constructed an idea of Nation on the ideological colonial basements perpetuated in the elitist repulsion towards the mass or populace, which at last produced his exclusion of the promissory modernity.

Keywords : slaves; Independence; citizenship; assimilation; exclusion.

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