Un conde nórdico en el Caribe: La presencia de Federico Tomás Adlercreutz en Colombia, Jamaica y Venezuela, 1820-1849

Le héros des romans de Chrétien de Troyes est un 'chevalier', ce qui suppose, au Moyen Âge, toute une série de qualités d'ordre et moral et social, qui le différencient du reste et qui le situent à l'intérieur de l'élite de son monde. On pourrait même ajouter que le chevalier a un désir de transformation qui vise le perfectionnement personnel, et que ce désir le définit d'une certaine façon. Mais, avant toute chose, on est 'chevalier' quand 'on combat à cheval', et, sans aucun doute, l'essence du chevalier est intimement liée à sa monture. Le cheval définit le héros, non...

Las historias seleccionadas en este libro describen cómo funcionó el sistema esclavista africano en Costa Rica, contado por sus propias víctimas. Hubo particularidades porque no fue igual la vida de los esclavos y sus amos en los ingenios azucareros de Cuba o en las plantaciones de algodón de Estados Unidos, que en Costa Rica donde el cacao ocupaba muy poca mano de obra, razón por la cual la esclavitud fue destinada fundamentalmente al trabajo doméstico.

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