Sebastián Pagador (freedom fighter)

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Sebastián Pagador († February 13, 1781 in Oruro ) was a freedom fighter in the uprising of the indigenous peasant population in Upper Peru (Alto Perú), today's Bolivia , against the Spaniards in 1781. The province of Sebastián Pagador today bears his name to his freedom struggle to honor.

The indigenous people's uprising on February 10, 1781 in what was then Villa de San Felipe de Austria , today's Oruro, was under the leadership of Túpac Amaru and Túpac Katari . Villa de San Felipe de Austria was an important mining center for the production of silver , tin , lead and antimony , which contributed significantly to the wealth of the Spanish colonial rulers . Sebastián Pagador, a non-commissioned officer in the army, was one of the most active supporters of the rebels and, with his association of Creole mestizos, organized the uprising against the Spanish Corregidor ( German : bailiff) of Oruro, Ramón de Urrutia .

Sebastián Pagador is assigned the following call to fight the insurgents:

"Amigos, paisanos y compañeros: estad ciertos que se intenta la más aleve traición contra nosotros por los chapetones, esta noticia acaba de comunicárseme por mi hija. In ninguna ocasión podemos mejor dar evidentes pruebas de nuestro amor a la patria, sino en ésta. No estimemos en nada nuestras vidas, sacrifiquémoslas, gustosos en defensa de la libertad, convirtiendo toda la humanidad y rendimiento, que hemos tenido con los españoles europeos, en ira y furor y acabemos de una vez con esta maldita raza. "

("Friends, compatriots and comrades: be sure that the Chapetones (the European immigrants) intend the most insidious treason against us, my daughter has just sent this message to me. On no other occasion can we prove our love for the fatherland better than at Let us not cherish our life, but willingly sacrifice it in defense of freedom, and let us turn all humanity and the benefits we had from the European Spaniards into anger and turmoil, and in the end let us join in of this cursed race. ")

In the days following Ramón de Urrutia's escape, the insurgents began raiding and looting Spanish properties. When Pagador faced the looters, apparently to defend the royal treasure, one of the indigenous attackers was killed by him. Pagador was then insulted and lynched as a traitor by the farmers and indigenous people . With his death the uprising collapsed and the Spaniards regained power in Oruro.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Acerca del 10 de Febrero de 1781 (La Patria. February 10, 2011) ( Spanish )

literature

  • Nicholas A. Robins: Genocide and millennialism in Upper Peru. The Great Rebellion of 1780–1782. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 027597569X , online
  • Scarlett O'Phelan Godoy, Scarlett O'Phelan: La gran rebelión en los Andes. De Túpac Amaru a Túpac Catari. Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos "Bartolomé de las Casas", 1995, ISBN 848387024X

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personal data
SURNAME Pagador, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Freedom fighters in the indigenous uprising (1781) in Upper Peru
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1781
Place of death Oruro , today Bolivia