Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution : Reform, Revolution, and Royalism in the Northern Andes, 1780-1825 (Paperback)

Introduction. Law, empire, and politics in the revolutionary age; 1. Reform, revolution, and royalism in the Northern Andes - New Granada and Popayan, 1780?1825; 2. Indian politics and Spanish justice in eighteenth-century Pasto; 3. The laws of slavery and the politics of freedom in late-colonial Popayan; 4. Negotiating loyalty - royalism and liberalism among Pasto Indian communities (1809?19); 5. Slaves in the defense of Popayan - war, royalism, and freedom (1809?19); 6. 'The yoke of the greatest of all tyrannical intruders, Bolivar' - the royalist rebels in Colombia's southwest (1820?5); Conclusion. The law and social transformation in the early republic.