Abstract

PITA PICO, Roger. Difficulties of a Frustrated Colonizer Project: The Migration of Families of the Northeast of the New Kingdom of Grenade to the Darien Province, 1783-1790. Anu.hist.reg.front. [online]. 2014, vol.19, n.1, pp.79-107. ISSN 0122-2066.

Under the Bourbon reforms in the eighteenth century, the Spanish Crown promoted, through the combined action of military means and colonization, the process of integration of border areas threatened by internal and external actors. Under the impulse of this policy, the inhabitants of the northeast of the New Kingdom of Grenade were called to populate the territories Carare-Opón and Darien region. The mobilization of these people involved an arduous campaign of persuasion based on justifications of religious, economic and political nature aimed at achieving greater social control, such as the need to counter the laziness and the desire to avoid further political turmoil. After all, this colonization project failed due to poor financial support and lack of a comprehensive and coordinated strategy properly planned.

Keywords : Colombia; Colonia; migration; colonization; social control.

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