We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
"Ciudadanos de un pueblo libre": liberalismo popular y raza en el suroccidente de Colombia en el siglo XIX.
- Authors
Sanders, James E.
- Abstract
This article explores how popular classes, especially Afro-Colombians, created an alliance with the Liberal Party in the Cauca region of Colombia during the mid-nineteenth century. Afro-Caucanos negotiated with elite leaders of the party, trading their votes and service as soldiers in the civil wars of the era for a variety of social, economic and political gains, including the abolition of slavery, access to commons, the reduction of aguardiente monopolies, and obtaining the status of citizens. Afro-Caucanos also redefined citizenship, imagining a popular liberalism different from the conceptions of Liberal elites, investing it with more powerful notions of liberty and equality. In the 1870s, the alliance began to fracture as elite Liberals refused to break the hacienda system and grant land rights to their popular supporters.
- Subjects
COLOMBIA; AFRICA; LIBERALISM; RACE; ETHNIC groups; POLITICAL participation; COLOMBIAN history; ETHNOLOGY; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Historia Crítica, 2009, Issue 38, p172
- ISSN
0121-1617
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7440/histcrit38.2009.09