Abstract

AMAYA, José Antonio. ENRIQUE UMAÑA BARRAGÁN (1771-1854): HIS CHANGE FROM SUSPECTED SEDITIOUS INTO A LOYAL FUNCTIONARY OF THE KING (1794-1809). Rev.hist.educ.latinoam. [online]. 2014, vol.16, n.23, pp.63-78. ISSN 0122-7238.

1794 and July 20th of 1810 are two greatest dates in the political history of Colombia. Those who were involved in the first not committed themselves automatically with the second one in a real or supposed way, nor with the so-called First Republic (1810-1816), as it is often told in the traditional historiography. Outside the political activity, there were unpublished documents generated by the heros in the course of its contradictory relationship with the absolutist State, this turn on perseptions that indicate new paths of interpretation. One of them is Enrique Umaña Barragán. On these pages Umaña leaded his conversion of a suspected conspirator in a loyal official of the king; years later he was the renowned manager of the farm Tequendama and just sometimes he would work as official of the nascent Republic. The defense, consolidation and increase of the heritage of his biggest and the commitment with his last names defined him a destination that it could sail with prudence in that messed up ocean that they lead from the Colonia to the Republic. The French Enlightenment incited him to be trained in a scientif way, with the authorization and the patronage of the monarchy. Nevertheless, it is necessary to say the distance that separates this adherence of an unimaginable militancy in the lines of the French Revolution in Hispanic grounds. Heritage and good name depended on the loyalty to the monarchy. Our hero definitely did not fit the model that the traditional historiography would like to locate him. It is necessary to re-read his life in order to reveal the secret that he was allowed to pass through unscathed and with advantage the path of the "old to the new Republic".

Keywords : Journal History of the Latin American Education; Enrique Umaña Barragan; republic.

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