Abstract

SUAREZ SANCHEZ, Fernando. The Matrícula de Mar (Navy Register) in the American viceroyalties and Cartagena de Indias: the struggle around the establishment of the system at the end of the 18th Century. Historelo.rev.hist.reg.local [online]. 2019, vol.11, n.21, pp.319-348. ISSN 2145-132X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/historelo.v11n21.72851.

The following article, based on files from different archives, deals with the process of the establishment of the recruitment system called Matrícula de Mar (Navy Register) in the Latin-American viceroyalties, and especially, in Cartagena de Indias. The article also focuses on the struggle around the establishment of this system, mainly regarding the critics made by the Newgranadians attorneys Felipe Vergara and José Ignacio de Pombo, whose arguments championed the free trade and the right of the militiamen to fishing and sailing in the sea. The defense of these attorneys led to a shrink of the prerogatives of the Matrícula de Mar. In this sense, this article assumes that the naval service came down to a conundrumfor the modern conception of liberty.

Keywords : Latin American history; labour law; liberalism; maritime transport; harbours.

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