Popular insurrections, conflicts and compromises between free and freed men in Portuguese America and Rio de la Plata. Commentary of texts by Gustavo Paz and Luiz Geraldo Silva

ABSTRACT This article presents commentary to the texts "Popular war: Gauchos and the challenge to Elite power in Northern Rio de la Plata in the Revolutionary Period" by Gustavo Paz and "Free and freed Afro-Descendents and political equality in Portuguese America: Change of status, slavery, Atlantic perspective", by Luiz Geraldo Silva. In it, I emphasize the texts' main arguments and focus my comments on the historiographic and conceptual discussions presented.

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Main Author: Sá,Maria Elisa Noronha de
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de São Paulo - UNIFESP 2015
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2236-46332015000300647
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