No. 113 (2022)
Ensayos

Etnografía de manuscritos. Estrategias de inserción de un mulato de Curazao en las élites de la Nueva Granada

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  • Hugo Carrillo Ferreira
Hugo Carrillo Ferreira
Doctor en Antropología, Universidad de Buenos Aires; secretario ejecutivo de la Sociedad Guajira de Antropología, Riohacha, Colombia

Published 2025-01-14

Keywords

  • Nicolás Danies Palm,
  • antillean mulatto merchants,
  • insertion strategies,
  • racism,
  • 19th century

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Etnografía de manuscritos. Estrategias de inserción de un mulato de Curazao en las élites de la Nueva Granada. (2025). Historias, 113, 31-46. https://revistas.inah.gob.mx/index.php/historias/article/view/21926

Abstract

This article aims to study the successful insertion of a mulatto merchant from the island of Curaçao, Nicolás Danies Palm, into the elites of New Granada in the 19th century. Through this case study, it is proposed that marriage alliances with characters of “white lineage” and commercial relations with powerful businessmen from the United States constituted the main strategies used by some Caribbean mulatto merchants to insert themselves into the economic, social, economic, and political power structures. In this way, it is argued, they managed to overcome the segregation imposed by the racial prejudices of the white sectors of power. The Danies case demonstrates such an argument.

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