¿ Es posible la libertad en la esclavitud ? A proposito de la tensión entre la libertad y la esclavitud en la Nueva Granada.

Abstract

The historic tension between freedom and slavery in the Nuevo Reino de Granada constitutes a challenge for current historiography that attempts to trace the study of systems of slavery. This article, as an initial reflection, proposes discarding unilateral visions that project freedom and slavery as two historically separate entities. It proposes instead the concept of the “discursiveness of slavery” as the transversal variable that would relate the everyday phenomena of slavery, the “parasitic” dependence of slaveowners, and the resistence mechanisms of the enslaved and the indentured, among other things. Within this scenario, two central dynamics are proposed: freedom in slavery and slavery in freedom.

Keywords

• slavery
• Colombia
• theoretical aspects
• social conditions
• freedom and indenture.