Abstract

SILVA, LUIZ GERALDO. The Negroes of Cartagena and Pernambuco during the Period of the Atlantic Revolutions: Trajectories and Structures (1750-1840). Anu. colomb. hist. soc. cult. [online]. 2013, vol.40, n.2, pp.211-240. ISSN 0120-2456.

The article analyzes the trajectories of individuals and groups of people of African descent and of their institutions during the 18^th and early 19^th centuries, in two social configurations of the Ibero-American world: Cartagena, in the Colombian Caribbean, and Pernambuco, in Portuguese America. The study proposes the design of a verifiable theoretical model in orde to analyze these two social configurations in an interconnected, interdependent manner, despite their specific developments. It studies the relations between them the two configurations and their relations with the larger and moiré inclusive social configuration of the Atlantic world they belong to. The article emphasizes the importance of connections plans, common patterns, structural regularities, and recurrences that make it possible to analyze different social developments by posing common theoretical problems. Furthermore, it highlights the features shared by the social and demographic structures of their institutions, such as the black militias, as well as the shared Iberian political culture.

Keywords : Cartagena; Pernambuco; social configuration; negroes; militias.

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