Death, Slavery, and Spiritual Justice on the Colombian Black Pacific (1837)

Quibdó, the frontier, majority-black capital of Chocó on the Pacific Coast of New Granada (present-day Colombia), was declared to be in a state of “general alarm” when a free black woman launched a street protest after her enslaved grandson, Justo, was murdered by his Italian master in August 1836....

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:b76900e784c842bd94431063a5a51a372021-12-02T10:32:14ZDeath, Slavery, and Spiritual Justice on the Colombian Black Pacific (1837)1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.68186https://doaj.org/article/b76900e784c842bd94431063a5a51a372015-06-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/68186https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252Quibdó, the frontier, majority-black capital of Chocó on the Pacific Coast of New Granada (present-day Colombia), was declared to be in a state of “general alarm” when a free black woman launched a street protest after her enslaved grandson, Justo, was murdered by his Italian master in August 1836. This article explores the contending spiritual politics that emerged in the wake of Justo’s death, and how his death became a point of political confluence between the province’s black underclass and a local elite opposition.Yesenia BarraganCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsarticleslaverydeathritualswarjusticeAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2015)
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topic slavery
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Latin America. Spanish America
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death
rituals
war
justice
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Yesenia Barragan
Death, Slavery, and Spiritual Justice on the Colombian Black Pacific (1837)
description Quibdó, the frontier, majority-black capital of Chocó on the Pacific Coast of New Granada (present-day Colombia), was declared to be in a state of “general alarm” when a free black woman launched a street protest after her enslaved grandson, Justo, was murdered by his Italian master in August 1836. This article explores the contending spiritual politics that emerged in the wake of Justo’s death, and how his death became a point of political confluence between the province’s black underclass and a local elite opposition.
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author Yesenia Barragan
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title Death, Slavery, and Spiritual Justice on the Colombian Black Pacific (1837)
title_short Death, Slavery, and Spiritual Justice on the Colombian Black Pacific (1837)
title_full Death, Slavery, and Spiritual Justice on the Colombian Black Pacific (1837)
title_fullStr Death, Slavery, and Spiritual Justice on the Colombian Black Pacific (1837)
title_full_unstemmed Death, Slavery, and Spiritual Justice on the Colombian Black Pacific (1837)
title_sort death, slavery, and spiritual justice on the colombian black pacific (1837)
publisher Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
publishDate 2015
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