Week 2: Rights in Revolution
Rights in Revolution: state building, revolution, constitution-making and rights
How did Latin American elites understand citizenship during the process of state building? What systems of representation were introduced in Latin America after independence? What were the main political divides? How did indigenous groups, Afro-Latin Americans, peasants and working class groups participate in politics? How were tensions between group and individual rights played out? How did people claim political rights? What civil and political rights were afforded in constitutions? Were civil and political rights the only rights at stake in the issues arising?
Primary sources:
Jose Maria Morelos, .
, 19 March 1812.
Declarations of Rights of , ,
A Digital History Project
, University of Nottingham
Core Reading:
Laurent Dubois, A Colony of Citizens: Revolution & Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 (North Carolina, 2006), Introduction + Chapter 1 鈥業nsurrection and the Language of Rights鈥�, 1-30. ()
Marcela Echeverri, "", 1809 – 1819. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 May 2011; 91 (2): 237–269.
Practical Assignment Preparation:
Take your pick of what you might be interested in thinking about for the reflecting on public history exercise:
1 Watch this episode of Henry Louis Gates Jr's PBS, 2011.
Is a Harvard Professor, Journalist and Filmmaker. This is part of a series of PBS documentaries. We have an e-book in the library which is on the reading list below. How effective is this documentary as a piece of public History?
2 Look at this example of an online gallery. How effective is it as a piece of public history?
3 Listen to this podcast about Do you think it draws on recent historical research? How effective is it as a piece of public history?
4 Look at the digital history resource, .
How accessible is it and how easy to navigate?
Background Reading:
(Chapter 1)
Oxford Handbook, "Independence in Latin America"
Further Reading:
Manuel Barcia. The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825: Cuba and the fight for freedom in Matanzas. Louisiana State University Press, 2012.
Manuel Barcia. West African Warfare in Bahia Cuba. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Manuel Barcia. Seeds of Insurrection: domination and resistance on Western Cuban Plantations 1808-1848. Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
Peter Blanchard. , University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008.
Simon Bolivar, , Trans Fred Fornoff, David Bushnell (ed.) Oxford University Press, 2003.
Matthew Brown and Gabriel Paquette (eds.) , University of Alabama Press, 2013.
Simon Collier. 鈥溾�� The Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 63, no. 1, 1983, pp. 37–64.
Laurent Dubois. Avengers of the New World. Harvard: Belknap Press, 2004.
Marcela Echeverri. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Mallon, Florencia. Decolonizing Native Histories. Durham/ London: Duke University Press, 2012.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.. . New York: New York University Press, 2011. (Chapters on Haiti and the Dominican Republic.)
Peter Guardino. The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750-1850. Duke, 2005.
Brian R. Hamnett, Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Anthony McFarlane. Routledge, 2013.
Mirow, M. C. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Paquette, Gabriel. . Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Jeremy D. Popkin, You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery. Cambridge, 2010.
Jo茫o Jos茅 Reis. "African Nations in Nineteenth-Century Salvador, Bahia`". In Jorge Ca帽izares-Esguerra, Matt D. Childs, and James Sidbury, eds. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
Mattias Rohrig Assuncao. Elite Politics and Popular Rebellion in the Construction of Post Colonial Order. The Case of Maranao, Brazil (1820-41). JLAS, 31:1 (1999), 1-38.
Mariza de Carvalho Soares. "African Barbeiros in Brazilian Slave Ports". In Jorge Ca帽izares-Esguerra, Matt D. Childs, and James Sidbury, eds. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
Scott, Rebecca J. 鈥淒efining the Boundaries of Freedom in the World of Cane: Cuba, Brazil and Louisiana after Emancipation.鈥� American Historical Review, 99:1 (February 1994): 70-102.
Joshua Simon. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Ward Stavig. Hispanic American Historical Review, vol.68, (1988)
Steve J. Stern. Resistance, Rebellion and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World 18th to 20th Centuries. University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. (Relevant Chapters.)
Whitney Nell Steward and John Garrison Marks (eds.) Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations. University of Georgia Press, 2018.
Camilla Townsend, 鈥淗alf of my Body Free, the Other Half Enslaved: The Politics of the Slaves of Guayaquil at the End of the Colonial Era,鈥� Colonial Latin American Review, 7:1 (1998): 105-28.
John Tutino (ed.) Durham NC; Duke University Press, 2016.
Richard Warren. Vagrants and Citizens: politics and the masses in Mexico City from Colony to Republic. Scholarly Resources, 2001.
Charles Walker. The Tupac Amaru Rebellion. Harvard University Press, 2014.