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This article analyzes the genesis and consolidation of devotion to the holy Ecce Homo in the city of Popayán —located in the New Kingdom of Granada— during the second half of the 17th century. It explores the influence of this mystical experience in crystalizing the city’s religious feasts and the cultural nuances that permeated this particular invocation. It also describes the relationship of interdependence between the liberty of the free black man Juan Antonio de Velasco and other merchants, slaves, artisans, and the devout public in stabilizing this particular form of worship of the holy one. At the same time that it specifically traces the “life world” of the founder and confrere of the tradition, it calls attention to the imprint he made on this religious ritual in Popayán, “the white city.” In addition to these social factors, it also shows the influence that the generalized natural crisis of the 17th century had on the emergence of new brotherhoods, rogation days and forms of devotion.

This article analyzes the genesis and consolidation of devotion to the holy Ecce Homo in the city of Popayán -- located in the New Kingdom of Granada-- during the second half of the 17th century. It explores the influence of this mystical experience in crystalizing the city's religious feasts and the cultural nuances that permeated this particular invocation. It also describes the relationship of interdependence between the liberty of the free black man Juan Antonio de Velasco and other merchants, slaves, artisans, and the devout public in stabilizing this particular form of worship of the holy one. At the same time that it specifically traces the "life world" of the founder and confrere of the tradition, it calls attention to the imprint he made on this religious ritual in Popayán, "the white city." In addition to these social factors, it also shows the influence that the generalized natural crisis of the 17th century had on the emergence of new brotherhoods, rogation days and forms of devotion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tracing the history of a family across three generations, from enslavement in eighteenth-century West Africa through emancipation during the Haitian Revolution and subsequent resettlement in New Orleans, then France, then Belgium, can shed light on phenomena that are Atlantic in scope. Together, the experiences of the Vincent/ Tinchant family illuminate an Atlantic and Caribbean rights-consciousness that crossed the usual boundaries of language and citizenship. Uncovering these experiences suggests the value of combining the close focus displayed in Sidney Mintz's Worker in the Cane with the Atlantic approach of his later Sweetness and Power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents in a abbreviated manner the results of field research on the names proprietors gave to their slaves and the identities of slaves in the process of abolition of slavery in Cuba. In giving slaves only the first surname of one of their last owners and denying them the second surname in legal documents, a process of race-race-marking and race-making began after emancipation, in the period of post-emancipation. The article also presents models of the relations between former slaves, both male and female, and the territories defined by the elites (region, state, etc.) and how former slaves and their children in Cuba participated in politics (war of independence 1895-1898) to define new territories, such as the independent republic of 1902. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]