This essay focuses on republican slavery in the context of the history of traffic of human beings in Peru. We examine the conditions which led to the struggle against slavery, the ambiguity appearing inside the early Peruvian state regarding this issue when slavery was partially abolished, as well as the resistance of landowners to this changes, the efforts of slaves and liberal groups to end the slave system and the general impact on the public space.

This essay focuses on republican slavery in the context of the history of traffic of human beings in Peru. We examine the conditions which led to the struggle against slavery, the ambiguity appearing inside the early Peruvian state regarding this issue when slavery was partially abolished, as well as the resistance of landowners to this changes, the efforts of slaves and liberal groups to end the slave system and the general impact on the public space.

Publicación sobre una serie de autores que se plantearon cuestiones que siguen animando la reflexión histórica contemporánea, varias décadas antes de la celebración del primer centenario de la independencia del Perú en 1921.

Cerro de Pasco has been the mining nucleus with the greatest socioeconomic influence in the central Peruvian highlands, its importance dates back to the end of the colonial era in which silver production gained a new boom and in this seat the most important yields of the area were achieved. -Peruvian (Fisher, 1977: 213-214, 222-223).

Thinking of history as a form of total consciousness implies concern for a study of the past that allows us to understand the present. "Aristocracia y Plebe. Lima, 1760-1830" by Alberto Flores-Galindo (Mosca Azul Editores. Lima, 1984), is a text that is decidedly inclined towards this purpose, and this is its greatest merit. And, paradoxically, it reveals its greatest weakness. Topics that the author analyzes, such as racism and urban violence, lead us to a reflection that goes beyond the current situation; In this, they fully meet the objective of making the past an instrument for understanding the present. But the rationalization of that design also requires that we become aware of the preconceptions that contemporary experience inculcates, otherwise we will project them uncritically on the phenomena of the past.

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