"El primer libertador de las Americas" / the first liberator of the Americas: The Editor's Notes

First of all, Gaspar Yanga, for whom the municipality was named, is a symbol of freedom, however unacknowledged, for all of the Americas: During the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Yanga and his fellow freedom fighters successfully fought against and eluded Spanish soldiers, and later negotiated with official representatives of the Spanish Crown for land and for certain human and civil rights. [...]Yanga, with the upper hand as victor, dictated the terms for a peace settlement to Alonso de Benavides and Manuel Carrillo, both of whom the Viceroy sent on a diplomatic mission to meet with Yanga for peace. The most important of the Yangans' eleven-item "treaty" was, of course, their demand for the right to be free and the right to make their settlement a free town, a site capable of securing Yangans from Spanish tyranny, exploitation, and domination. [...]was born the first free town in the Americas: the town of San Lorenzo de Los Negros, which would later be called Yanga. Richard Price [In colonial Mexico] it appears that flight and revolt constituted the most effective avenue to liberty for the slave population, despite the existence of an elaborate (if often ineffective) machinery of control and conciliation. [...]a major consequence of resistance was the development of the free Negro and Afromestizo population of the colony. -

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Rowell, Charles Henry

Đề mục:

Literature

Nhà xuất bản:

Johns Hopkins University Press

Ngày xuất bản:

Winter 2008

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Callaloo; Baltimore, Volume 31, Issue 1, Winter 2008, Pages 1-11,181-192

Liên kết:

ISSN 0161-2492

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"El primer libertador de las Americas" / the first liberator of the Americas: The Editor's Notes

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