Abstract

BRAGONI, Beatriz  and  MORALES, Orlando Gabriel. Civil freedom and patriotism in the revolutionary Río de la Plata: the experience of black slaves in the province of Cuyo, 1812-1820. Hist. Soc. [online]. 2016, n.30, pp.131-167. ISSN 0121-8417.  https://doi.org/10.15446/hys.n30.52537.

In this paper, it is recovered some voices and practices of slaves and freedmen of the Government of Cuyo (Argentina) concerning conceptions and individual and collective initiatives for civil liberty during the cycle of wars of revolution and independence. They were originated from a set of case files which can let appreciate the intersection of opportunity and operated changes in the regulatory and institutional system, and the political agency of subaltern sectors, subject to the new patriotic and revolutionary legitimacy.

Keywords : social history; microhistory; political revolution; slavery; social conflict; afrodescendants.

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