THE CITIES (wk 5a)

Like the natural facts, the inhabitants of the cities and their ways of living, are also important for the Colombian history, like the natural facts, the inhabitants of the cities and their ways of living, etc, and that is going to be the theme for this essay. When the colonialism started, new habits and points of view were established, but these points of view were not unique, because they were already established by the Spanishmen, but this is something that we will see later. So we will mostly learn about how the cities and its inhabitants worked during the Spanish colonialism.

The cities had most power than many other places, because they were the center of the State and what defines from which part of Colombia you are from and also defines the important parts of our country, and how it is divided. But the capital city has even more power, because it is the “heart” of the country, and the place were everything in the country is handled. The inhabitants of the cities are sometimes complicated, and and use the city for a different purpose. The white people arrived to Colombia and took the black people as slaves, and thought they were keeping shipping of contraband in their houses.

We can say that this is true because Hermes Tovar talks about this subject: “…Hizo presumir a las autoridades que los esclavos escondían en sus casas mercancías de contrabando” (Colombia, imágenes de su diversidad, pg 66). We can conclude that the cities had plenty of power, but its inhabitants used it for another purpose, and that there is a lot of history unseen about them.