Bernardo de Monteagudo
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- Bernardo de Monteagudo (1789–1825) was a political activist and revolutionary.
- He was born in Tucumán in Argentina, and was assassinated in Lima, Perú.
- He was a key figure in the presence of Afrodescendants in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- Some historians support the idea that his mother was the slave of a canon, and that later she married a soldier of Spanish origin who set up a grocery store with which he paid for his stepson's law degree.
- He was the only survivor of eleven children and spent his childhood in relative economic scarcity: when he died, after spending his fortune helping his son, his father owned a grocery store and a slave.
Bernardo de Monteagudo (1789–1825) was a political activist and revolutionary. He took part in the liberation struggles in South America, particularly in Argentina.
He was born in Tucumán in Argentina, and was assassinated in Lima, Perú.
He was most likely of mixed race, with ancestry which included African slaves. He was a key figure in the presence of Afrodescendants in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In Tucumán and Córdoba
His father was Miguel Monteagudo, a Spaniard, and his mother Catalina Cáceres Bramajo, a woman from Tucumán. Some historians support the idea that his mother was the slave of a canon, and that later she married a soldier of Spanish origin who set up a grocery store with which he paid for his stepson's law degree. As an adult, his political enemies sought to discriminate against him using the criteria established in the Spanish colonies by the Statutes of blood cleansing, maintaining that his mother descended from indigenous or African slaves and applying the qualifiers "zambo" or "mulatto" .
He was the only survivor of eleven children and spent his childhood in relative economic scarcity: when he died, after spending his fortune helping his son, his father owned a grocery store and a slave. He studied law in Córdoba.
In Upper Peru
Recommended by a priest friend of his father's, he entered the University of Chuquisaca, where he graduated in law in 1808, and began to practice as a defender of the poor.
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