From what I just read, I found very intriguing some aspects of the reading like for example, I think women rights were not included in those years because the main problem was between race and it was not focused at all in gender. In addition to, you can infer that white people do not wanted to lose power thats why they did not recognise other people’s rights, in this case “the slaves”.
Some people can ask themselves this question, What was the main reason that white people do not wanted to recognise these rights? It was very obvious, slavery in those times was very profitable and also necessary for industrialisation so that means if these people wanted to keep their power they needed to have these people under their command.
I also think that independence wasn’t at all the only aspect to recognise freedom, it recognises freedom from colonial rules but not at all, for example, we can say that Mexico was finally free after the revolution because when Porfirio Diaz was ruling the country many people were working based on terrible schedules to maintain the economy of the country but more important because Diaz was a dictator and people do not have a choice and once again, Mexicans were working like slaves to keep the industrialisation with the general objective of making profit.
On the other hand, I think slave owners or “The wealthy” did not allow their slaves to be merchants nor owners of pets because they didn’t want to have a kind of relation with their workers, the status of powerful people was very important to them.
From the document of “Programa del Partido Independiente de Color” we can infer that people in general no matter colour or race wanted to participate in political matters like voting and being voted by the population of the country in this case Cuba. I also noticed that in those days opportunities were not available for communities in general because they were basically demanding first needs like going to school, more justice for everyone through courts and not only for the rich, free universities, among many others.
From the document of “El manifesto Santa Rita de Casia y San Lázaro”, religion was the most important thing in those communities and also their main fundamental point was that we were all equals in God’s eyes. In addition to, I think they wrote this document for one and only main purpose, to show the rich people that wealthy is not everything in their lives and if they were keeping those practices they will be punished by God.
Hey Adrian,
I think that back in those days, slavery was an issue that came to be more debated than women’s rights because there were still slaves who were men, and there really was this discussion about whether or not men should be kept as slaves. At the same time, however, women’s rights, I believe, may not have been a focus because of the fact that women were much less likely to object to their place in society than slaves because (if they were white, at least) they were better off than a good chunk of slaves and mestizos and mulattos. But regardless, you can still find a decent amount of feminist movements dating from that period, although they most likely had very different aims back then than feminists do nowadays.