Social Mobility of Military Afromestizos in the Independence and Civil Wars in Río de la Plata. Lorenzo Barcala (1795-1835)

This article reconstructs the biography of Lorenzo Barcala, a pardo born at the end of the XVIII century in Mendoza (in the capital context of the province of Cuyo), who played an important role in the non-white participation in civic and and other armed forces of the city between 1814 and...