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DURANGO LOAIZA, Miguel. Tracking the Berceau's Fleet: Organic Metaphors, Epidemics, and Revolution in the Transimperial Caribbean at the Turn of the 19 ^th Century. Front. hist. [online]. 2022, vol.27, n.2, pp.41-60.  Epub 01-Jul-2022. ISSN 2027-4688.  https://doi.org/10.22380/20274688.2062.

This article analyzes how, at the turn of the nineteenth century, officials in Nueva Granada and Venezuela perceived the revolutions in the French Caribbean. Accordingly, it tracks the route of a French fleet that sailed from Martinique to sell more than two hundred black prisoners of war. Contemporaries described the arrival of this expedition with analogies among diseases, epidemics, and revolution. It argues that organic metaphors structured the decisions officials made in accepting, or rejecting, the traffic of these deported people. By showing evidence of smuggling, the article also illustrates how authorities selectively used these metaphors while trying to prevent new rebellions.

Palavras-chave : Age of Revolutions; organic metaphors; slavery; smuggling.

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