Atheists & Agnostics

"Men will never be free until the last King is strangle with the Entrails of the last Priest."

atheist-priest Jean Meslier quoting Common Frenchman.

Introduction

Reform, revolution, and royalism in the northern Andes

New Granada and Popayán (1780-1825)

In the year 1810, in the midst of the Spanish monarchy's deepest crisis of sovereignty that took place during Napoleon's invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, the slave- and mine-owning elites across New Granada's southwestern province of Popayán (in present day Colombia) formed the first I surgent juntas, rejecting Spanish sovereignty.

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In a remarkable moment in the history of slavery, the representatives of the Spanish king mobilized slaves against slave owners, and slaves allied with and defended the crown, which had historically promoted slavery.