Love and slavery in the south border of the Spanish empire: it manumission of Luis Suárez 1762-1824

Abstract

This article examines a story of love in a slavery scenario. A manumission of Luis Suárez and a juridical process in consequence, has allowed us to know interesting details about an emotional dimension of that regime, which could affect not only the African-American population but as well Creoles and Liberated. The research reveals emotional sensibilities of the Latin-American lower-class people at the end of the 18th century.