Cimarrones y palenques en el actual dpto. Del Atlántico. El caso de tabacal: resistencias y exclusión

Abstract

The current department of Atlantico, once a part of Tierradentro, as well as the entire province of Cartagena of which it was part, was the scene of significant and successful maroon processes, many of which culminated in the creation of several palenques. The Luruaco mountains and the triangle formed by them, the Dique channel and the Magdalena river became nuclei and epicenters of the Maroon resistance. However, to this reality the historiography that is dedicated to these issues, for different reasons has oversized only the San Basilio Palenque and has hidden and made invisible the historical importance of the Tabacal Palenque, located in the Serranias or Montes de Luruaco. Consequently, this article shows not only the importance of this palenque but also its belligerence and resistance to defend its freedom; to such an extent that the authorities and the Cartagena elite of the moment excluded them from the agreements that had been established to solve the confrontation through dialogue that they applied to the Maroons of the Montes de Maria.