De esclavos a ciudadanos y malentretenidos. Representaciones del negro en el discurso jurídico colombiano del siglo XIX

Mediante una narrativa historiografica elaborada a partir de textos legales, el presente documento pretende interpretar las ausencias y presencias del negro en el discurso juridico decimononico producido una vez obtenida la independencia de Espana en los albores del siglo XIX. Teniendo en cuenta que la imaginacion del Estado republicano represento un desafio para las elites criollas, las cuales —pese a predicar retoricamente la consolidacion de una comunidad nacional basada en la igualdad y la democracia— construyeron una idea de Nacion sobre los basamentos ideologicos coloniales, perpetuados en la repulsion elitista hacia la masa o plebe, lo que a la postre produjo su exclusion de la promisoria modernidad. From Slaves to Citizens and Vagabonds. Representations of Blackness in the Colombian Legal Discourse during the 19th Century Abstract Through a historiographical narrative drawn from legal texts, this paper aims to interpret the absence and presence of black people in the nineteenth-century legal discourse produced once the independence of Spain was obtained in the early nineteenth century. Considering that the imagination of a State Republican represented a challenge for the local elites, — which despite of  preaching rhetorically the consolidation of a national community based on the equality and the democracy — constructed an idea of Nation on the ideological colonial basements perpetuated in the elitist repulsion towards the mass or populace, which at last produced his exclusion of the promissory modernity.   Keywords : slaves, Independence, citizenship, assimilation, exclusion