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The participation of the subaltern groups to the Spanish-American independent movements is at the centre of this article. Though historiography has always underestimated their contribution to the wars that liberated Spanish American... more
The participation of the subaltern groups to the Spanish-American independent movements is at the centre of this article. Though historiography has always underestimated their contribution to the wars that liberated Spanish American territories from Spain, subaltern sectors (indigenous, free people of colour and slaves) played indeed a very important and active role during the this period. Not only they participated to the armies that defeated the Spanish, but they had significant political objectives to attain. Like the elites, they understood that the collapse of the Spanish monarchy had opened some possibilities of action, unimaginable before 1808. Wars implied de facto an improvement of the social and political conditions of popular groups: for the free coloureds meant the access of citizenship; for slaves, the acquisition of freedom; for the indigenous people, the defence of their lands.
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The role played by free people of color in the colonial societies of the Atlantic world is at the centre of this essay. Their ambiguous status makes them a privileged group to study when examining the negotiation and formation of racial... more
The role played by free people of color in the colonial societies of the Atlantic world is at the centre of this essay. Their ambiguous status makes them a privileged group to study when examining the negotiation and formation of racial identity as well as the definition of citizenship requirements in colonial and post-colonial contexts. Through an analysis of the contributions made by recent studies, this article proposes an historiographical survey of the transformation of racial and social hierarchies and of the shaping of new citizenship rights during the age of revolutions.
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By analyzing a number of trials concerning land disputes that took place between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth, this essay examines how freemen of color accessed property in the Pacific lowlands... more
By analyzing a number of trials concerning land disputes that took place between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth, this essay examines how freemen of color accessed property in the Pacific lowlands along the frontier of the Spanish empire, stretching from modern-day Colombia to Ecuador. Characterized by alluvial gold fields, this region was home to a significant population of Africans – both enslaved and free – who had mixed with local indigenous groups, in contrast to the very small presence of whites and the colonial authority. The mines thus became a resource for slaves to acquire freedom and land. In this particular context, the African diaspora communities living in this region considered the appeal to justice for the acknowledgment of their property rights more of a strategy to achieve citizenship, rather than the beginning of a process of ethno-genesis.
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Introduction to the monographic number "Free People of Color in the Atlantic World" published in Quaderni Storici, n. 1, 2015 and coordinated by Federica Morelli and Clément Thibaud. Essays by Alejandro de la Fuente, John Garrigus, Ariela... more
Introduction to the monographic number "Free People of Color in the Atlantic World" published in Quaderni Storici, n. 1, 2015 and coordinated by Federica Morelli and Clément Thibaud. Essays by Alejandro de la Fuente, John Garrigus, Ariela Gross, Hebe Mattos, Federica Morelli, Jessica Pierre-Louis, Dominique Rogers and Clément Thibaud.
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Il passaggio dell'America spagnola all'indipendenza non è semplicemente una guerra di liberazione coloniale. È un processo frammentato e complesso, contraddistinto da continuità e discontinuità, da violenze e vendette collettive, in cui... more
Il passaggio dell'America spagnola all'indipendenza non è semplicemente una guerra di liberazione coloniale. È un processo frammentato e complesso, contraddistinto da continuità e discontinuità, da violenze e vendette collettive, in cui le esperienze al di là e al di qua dell'Atlantico si influenzano a vicenda. È la prima dissoluzione di uno di quei grandi insiemi multicomunitari, i sistemi imperiali dell'età moderna, che nel corso dell'Otto e del Novecento daranno vita a una pluralità di stati nazionali. Restituendo centralità alla dimensione imperiale, il libro propone una nuova interpretazione dell'indipendenza e della nascita degli stati ispano-americani: le rivoluzioni politiche e sociali non sono la causa del crollo della monarchia spagnola, ma la sua conseguenza. Solo molto lentamente, attraverso violente guerre e continue negoziazioni, si andranno configurando quegli spazi attorno a cui si formeranno le nuove nazioni.
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Review of Freedom Papers by Rebecca Scott and Jean Hébrard (Harvard University Press, 2012)
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1Ce livre analyse les relations entretenues entre l'oligarchie sucrière cubaine et la monarchie hispanique à une période où, sur le reste du continent, le lien colonial se trouve progressivement remis en question. Le fait que Cuba... more
1Ce livre analyse les relations entretenues entre l'oligarchie sucrière cubaine et la monarchie hispanique à une période où, sur le reste du continent, le lien colonial se trouve progressivement remis en question. Le fait que Cuba n'ait pas basculé vers l'indépendance comme la ...
Doctoral Program in Global History of Empires
