Abstract

BENAVIDES MARTINEZ, Juan José. General revolt and exemplary repression. The riots of 1767 in San Luis Potosí. Revista Col. San Luis [online]. 2016, vol.6, n.12, pp.40-72. ISSN 2007-8846.

A series of violent demonstrations against the authorities in San Luis Potosí, traditionally related to the expulsion of the Jesuits from the territories of the Spanish Monarchy began in may 1767. But, after the consultation of the correspondence between different nuclei revolt, ensure that these riots had as root cause conflicts that existed in the Potosi region over access to land, and abuses that authorities submitted to the inhabitants of the districts of San Luis and the villages of the region.

A few abusive arrests and the implementation of reforms, which affected directly the daily habits and the battered economies of the plain people, caused the violent outbreak in may 1767. The miners of Cerro de San Pedro and the inhabitants of the villages of jurisdiction came together and took the city in turmoil. Authorities had no ability to react and only the intervention of a great landowner, Francisco de Mora, who negotiated from a position of strength with the rebels, could restore peace to the region.

Then the visitor José of Gálvez, imposed some harsh exemplary punishments, so the people understand that should always respect to the authorities, and also they served to appear before his superiors as the peacemaker of a serious rebellion that threatened to become independent New Spain.

Keywords : Popular revolts; San Luis Potosí; José de Gálvez; propertys; Bourbon reformism.

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