Abstract

DIAZ CASAS, María Camila. “The tame lambs have become rabid tigers”: slavery and collective action from the representations of the elites of southwestern New Granada. memorias [online]. 2019, n.37, pp.65-92. ISSN 1794-8886.  https://doi.org/10.14482/memor.37.986.103.

This article analyses the representations that the elites of Southwestern New Granada constructed in regard of the collective action of people of African Descent between 1840 and 1851. These representations were conditioned by the social position and the economic interests of the authors, along with the violence that the region experienced during the studied period. Throughout this text the representations are classified according to the repertories of the collective action, identifying the use of moral and political affiliations arguments to explain the actions of the enslaved and manumitted. The aim of this study is to contextualize the aforementioned representations, to challenge their normalization and to avoid their extrapolation on contemporary readings about the performance of social sectors in political spaces.

Keywords : collective action; people of African Descent; abolition of slavery; political parties.

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