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- Convenor:
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Sarah Washbrook
(University of Manchester)
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- Location:
- ATB G207
Short Abstract
This panel examines liberalism, slavery and race in Latin America in the 19th century focusing on the impact of post-Enlightenment ideas on economic policy, national identity and slave-holding.
Long Abstract
This panel examines liberalism, slavery and race in Latin America in the 19th century focusing on the relationship between post-Enlightenment ideas, economic policy, national identity and slave-holding in Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela. In the case of Colombia and Venezuela it also considers the impact of independence on economic ideas, trade, property and labour relations and the institution of slavery.
Accepted papers
Session 1Paper short abstract
This paper will examine slavery in the Andean region of Venezuela between 1821-54, analysing the experiences of masters and slaves and the legal and ideological framework that shaped their relationship in the republican period.
Paper long abstract
Slavery figured prominently in Venezuela's independence struggles between 1810 and 1821. Yet, despite oft repeated discourses of freedom and equality, promises of emancipation by many of the protagonists, the end of the slave trade and a free birth law in 1821, the institution of slavery survived the end of Spanish rule. This paper examines the reconstitution of slavery in Venezuela following independence, focusing upon the experiences of slaves in the Andean region. It aims to understand what changed and what stayed the same for those who remained slaves - and masters - after 1821, paying particular attention to gender and age. It also seeks to analyse the relationship between colonial ideas and laws regarding slavery and the liberal republican legal and theoretical framework that came afterwards.
Paper short abstract
The objective of this work is to study the European vision on the introduction of Africans in Brazil tropical nineteenth century, thereby addressing the impact of climate and racial prejudices in a country formed by mestizos and distinctly tropical.
Paper long abstract
History has always been cruel to the tropical climate, accusing him of being less than temperate climate, because it was in the middle latitudes that generated those that have long dominated the writing of history and the processes of colonization: the Europeans. That same feeling, Africans and Indians also suffered with the History, being long viewed as inferior peoples, averse to progress and civilization, in the eyes of those who dominated the writing of History.
Our work aims to study the visions about Brazil in the nineteenth century, a country marked by the presence of both the climate and the races disqualified in the period, with reference to Africans, one of the main bases of the formation of the Brazilian population. In that sense, we try to assess how the introduction of tropical Africans in Brazil was seen and debated within the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Europeans who passed through those lands and left their impressions, showing the effects of introducing people as a sort of "defect "source which mingled with European settlers, hailed as the bridge between a tropical Brazil doomed to failure and a successful European civilizational hope, based on the introduction of strong and stiff settlers of temperate lands.
It should also analyze in this work as in the case of Africans, the issue of race also helped to build the images on these people in Brazilian society, and how they would transform this society forever.