Autor
Palabras clave
Esclavitud
Historia atlántica
Siglos xviii y xix
Historia trasnnacional.
Resumen
En este artículo proponemos una reflexión sobre la cultura política, la historia atlántica y la esclavitud en las Américas. Abordamos —como campo de experimentación y demostración empírica— los términos del surgimiento de una percepción y una cultura política, tanto de los productores del trabajo bruto como de los administradores de la riqueza social. Analizamos los indicios de las percepciones y expectativas de la cultura política de los esclavos en las Américas en términos de un movimiento —en varios aspectos— atlántico, con significados translocales para los diferentes sujetos, personajes, estructuras y dimensiones. En el ámbito teórico, la cuestión principal es pensar estas evidencias como el lugar de encuentro de una cultura política atlántica que llegaba hasta los sectores subalternos de las sociedades en cuestión. Proponemos, como un desafío epistemológico, repensar las conexiones y las fronteras de la esclavitud, del liberalismo, de la post-emancipación, del colonialismo y de la libertad en los mundos del Atlántico a partir de experiencias cruzadas y procesos articulados. De esta forma, la historia atlántica como un campo teórico renovado
puede ofrecer claves metodológicas.
puede ofrecer claves metodológicas.
Keywords
Atlantic History; Transnational History; 18th Century; 19th Century.
Abstract
In this article, we propose to reflect on political culture, Atlantis history and slavery in the Americas. As a basis for empirical testing and demonstration, we discuss the terms of the emergence of a perception and political culture, both among the producers of raw labor and the managers of social wealth. We analyze indications of the perceptions
and expectations of the political culture of slaves in the Americas in terms of a movement that is, in many ways, Atlantic, with trans-local meanings for many subjects, characters, structures and dimensions. In the theoretical arena, the main question is to think of such signs as an interface with an Atlantic political culture that reached the subaltern sectors of the societies in question. As an epistemological challenge, we propose to rethink the connections and borders of slavery, liberalism, post-emancipation, colonialism and freedom in the Atlantis worlds, based on compared experiences and articulated processes. Thus, Atlantis history could provide methodological keys as a renewed theoretical field.
and expectations of the political culture of slaves in the Americas in terms of a movement that is, in many ways, Atlantic, with trans-local meanings for many subjects, characters, structures and dimensions. In the theoretical arena, the main question is to think of such signs as an interface with an Atlantic political culture that reached the subaltern sectors of the societies in question. As an epistemological challenge, we propose to rethink the connections and borders of slavery, liberalism, post-emancipation, colonialism and freedom in the Atlantis worlds, based on compared experiences and articulated processes. Thus, Atlantis history could provide methodological keys as a renewed theoretical field.