Prof. Dr. Marcela Echeverri is Associate Professor of History at Yale University, author of Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution: Reform, Revolution and Royalism in the Northern Andes (1780-1825).  She has a Humboldt Fellowship to be in Germany in 2019-2020.

For more publications and academic history: https://history.yale.edu/people/marcela-echeverri

Freedom before Liberalism: The Politics of Atlantic Abolition in Spanish America is a study of how slavery and antislavery in mainland Spanish America between 1810 and 1860 intersected with and shaped hemispheric republicanism, Atlantic abolitionism, and global capitalism.  This study will show that, rather than seeing mainland Spanish America as peripheral to the history of Atlantic slavery and anti-slavery, historians should consider the region as the epicenter of larger historical dynamics that shaped the meaning of freedom in the American continent.