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VENEGAS DELGADO, Hernán Maximiliano. Suicides, Epidemies and Death in a Collera of Apache (n’dé) Women and Children en Route to Mexico City (1789-1790). Estud. hist. novohisp [online]. 2024, n.71, pp.117-147.  Epub 22-Out-2024. ISSN 2448-6922.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.24486922e.2024.71.77809.

This article presents as a general objective the analysis of a collera (group of prisoners), composed almost entirely by apache (n´dé) women and children which was forcefully removed from the villa of Chihuahua and sent off to Mexico City. The inhumane and particularly cruel character of this removal draws the conclusions of this work. Suicides as means of liberation among the elder, as well as many epidemics and illnesses contracted, rebel acts which are mainly silenced and implied in the researched documents, and other grave problems are analyzed. The fundamental hypothesis, which derives the general conclusion of this article, is that these events brought the death and disappearance of approximately half of the members of the collera, a fact which high-lights the importance of this type of research. The essential analysis methods where the comparative-historical and the analytical-synthetical in accordance to the development of this decisive history that, given its transcendence, surpassed its theoretical conception in this case study. Documental sources referring the studied collera and other sources were used for this research in accordance to the comparative work that was done with other Iberoamerican territories.

Palavras-chave : collera; women; children; suicides; epidemics; death.

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