Independence, participation and conflict. Venezuela. 1808-1830

Abstract

In the context of the current revaluation of historical studies, this research specifies the character of the insurgency, which those considered silenced here-, brown, mestizos, mulattoes and blacks, among others-, arise from their daily lives after the events that occurred in Caracas on April 19, 1810. In particular, it deals with the manifest conflict, which in different ways involves them in political life during the first decades of the Venezuelan 19th century. The objective is, on the one hand, to make visible the forms and manners in which the common people, -the majorities-, insurge. On the other hand, reveal their values, their attitudes, their practices and their behaviors; or what is the same, its political culture. In short, what we want is to demonstrate how the manifest insurgency outlined, and ultimately promoted between 1808 and 1830, the struggles for freedom and independence in the provinces of the former Captaincy General of Venezuela.