Power and Violence in the Colonial City Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figure, maps, and tables
- Preface
- Map 1 Present-day Bolivia and surrounds
- Map 2 Principal routes of the Viceroyalty of Peru (second half of the eighteenth century)
- 1 Oruro between two epochs: a mining cycle
- 2 Under Spanish law
- 3 Oruro in 1741: details of a stormy election
- 4 The people
- 5 “Madmen, comedians, and hypocrites”
- 6 Captains of shipwreck
- 7 Returning to the known
- 8 “The fruits of the earth”
- 9 The end of an epoch: the Indian uprisings of 1780–1781
- 10 Oruro in the economic and geopolitical context of the epoch (c. 1780–1781)
- 11 The Oruro uprising
- 12 The voice of the rebels
- 13 Picking up the pieces
- Appendix A Indian raids on Oruro, 1781: testimonies
- Appendix B Testimonies of inhabitants of the city
- Appendix C Table of public jobs in Oruro, 1730–1784
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Appendix B - Testimonies of inhabitants of the city
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figure, maps, and tables
- Preface
- Map 1 Present-day Bolivia and surrounds
- Map 2 Principal routes of the Viceroyalty of Peru (second half of the eighteenth century)
- 1 Oruro between two epochs: a mining cycle
- 2 Under Spanish law
- 3 Oruro in 1741: details of a stormy election
- 4 The people
- 5 “Madmen, comedians, and hypocrites”
- 6 Captains of shipwreck
- 7 Returning to the known
- 8 “The fruits of the earth”
- 9 The end of an epoch: the Indian uprisings of 1780–1781
- 10 Oruro in the economic and geopolitical context of the epoch (c. 1780–1781)
- 11 The Oruro uprising
- 12 The voice of the rebels
- 13 Picking up the pieces
- Appendix A Indian raids on Oruro, 1781: testimonies
- Appendix B Testimonies of inhabitants of the city
- Appendix C Table of public jobs in Oruro, 1730–1784
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Summary
The witnesses were interrogated with the following questions:
“Tell if you know, you were told, or you had news that in the Time of the Rebellion in this City, many individuals lived here, both secular and ecclesiastical, with jobs and positions as vicars, priors, alcaldes y regidores, administrators of rents, and other public posts; specify their names and addresses excluding those who have been ordered arrested in this cause.”
“If you know that the cited employees have made any efforts to calm and quiet the anger of the rebels, or if on the contrary they lent encouragement and support to [the rebels'] operations.”
“Also if you know that during the time in question, even if they did not participate, they manifested later in private or public meetings any sentiments indicating their earlier manner of speaking.”
“Tell if you know or have been told that with motive of that rebellion large assets were taken from the dead and persecuted Europeans.”
“If you know or heard tell among which persons the said assets were distributed.”
“If you know or heard tell of purchases, acquisitions or investments of these assets, specify which subjects made these purchases, the investments they made in those assets, and how much they considered suitable to reveal their whereabouts, existence, and exploitation.”
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- Power and Violence in the Colonial CityOruro from the Mining Renaissance to the Rebellion of Tupac Amaru (1740–1782), pp. 193 - 209Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995