Abstract

LOPEZ SOLORZANO, MELVYS ÜRNELLA. Amidst turbulent passions: uxoricide in the Nuevo Reino de Granada (1779-1810). Hist. Caribe [online]. 2022, vol.17, n.41, pp.49-75.  Epub Dec 08, 2022. ISSN 0122-8803.  https://doi.org/10.15648/hc.41.2022.3370.

This article studies the uxoricide crime based on three cases that occurred in the Nuevo Reino de Granada between 1779-1810. The motives for women of different qualities killed by their spouses ranged from offenses to the honor of men, to the "neglect" of marital obligations. The study focuses on the qualities of the persons involved in the criminal act, with a twofold purpose. On the one hand, to examine the justifications that were attributed, on the part of the procurators of the poor, to the crime charged. On the other hand, to see the correlation between the quality of the convicted person and the sentence imposed on him. Arguments such as the honor of those below, marital faith, emotional blindness, and the irrationality of being an indigenous were used by the defense attorneys to obtain fairly lenient sentences for their defendants, even though magnitude of the crime.

Keywords : uxoricide; honor; qualities; women; Nuevo Reino de Granada.

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