Maternities shared By descendants of slaves and free in Esmeraldas in the second half of the 20th century

Abstract

The reason for my early research into the historical evolution of the Afro-Esmeralde population close to the Afro-Colombian population, and the way in which these processes take place, comes from my interest in a society whose development happened parallel to that of the republican capital. My first research on this society, which seems to be of matrilineal order, arises from a project of historical recount for the subject History of Ecuador2, in which, in contrast to family memories contrasted with bibliographical research, it was possible to situate historically a familiar, giving account of its context, the roles to which he was subject in society and comic, these allowed him to be a part of history.