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Following the conceptual thread of early antislavery and egalitarian propositions in the judicial forum, this chapter turns to the province of Cartagena. It concentrates on the town of Mompox, where one magistrate condemned slavery altogether in 1804, arguing that enslaving others was senseless and inhuman. Some patricians even suggested that equality was desirable, offering college admission for people of African descent. This sensibility built on interpretations of natural law that conferred humans with a legitimate drive for their self-preservation and freedom. An alliance that included patricians steeped in these doctrines and free people of color, led revolutionary Cartagena to declare independence from Spain and ratify an egalitarian constitution in 1812. These Cartagena leaders also proposed that a republican government devoted to the natural rights of equality and independence should question the yoke tying the slaves to the masters in perpetuity. Slavery, and the stigmas from African, enslaved ancestry were said to be unnatural legacies from Spain. Cartagena granted equality before the law for all male citizens, but failed to enact an antislavery policy.
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