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- Title
Manumission on the Land: Slaves, Masters, and Magistrates in Eighteenth-Century Mompox (Colombia).
- Authors
Pérez Morales, Edgardo
- Abstract
In the mid-1700s, the town of Mompox flourished in the Spanish viceroyalty of the New Kingdom of Granada, today part of the Republic of Colombia. Built on the banks of the northern Magdalena River, an important waterway connecting the Andean interior with the Caribbean Sea, Mompox constantly buzzed with travelers and trade alike. Mompox was home to a community of merchants who profited handsomely from both legal trade and smuggling, their networks reaching places as far away as Lima in Peru and Cádiz in Spain. These merchants were frequently also slaveholders and landowners. On haciendas outside of town, slaves cultivated the land and tended large herds of cattle. They gathered wood and resins and hunted for game and jaguars (panthera onca) that preyed on livestock. Along with free people of color, slaves also worked as artisans, journeymen, and oarsmen on boats transporting goods and people up and down the river (see Figure 1).
- Subjects
COLOMBIAN history; HISTORY of slavery; MAGISTRATES &; magistrates' courts; HISTORY of the emancipation of slaves; SLAVEHOLDERS; EMANCIPATION of slaves; EIGHTEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Law & History Review, 2017, Vol 35, Issue 2, p511
- ISSN
0738-2480
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0738248017000050