Keywords
elites
council
genealogy
colonial system
prosopografía
family
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Abstract
This paper begins with the analysis of the 53 signatories of the Extraordinary Council Minute in Santafé on July the 20th, 1810, with the aim at characterizing and identifying, beyond their names, all the people that signed the Act of Independence santafereña. From the analysis of personal, professional and familiar paths of the signatories, this paper shows different power scenarios and looks forward to the reinterpretation of traditional analysis that highlight the adept at breaking and groundbreaking condition and belief of those who signed the beginning of santafereña transformation in that Friday, july the 20th.The journal Memoria y Sociedad is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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