Struggle for Freedom, Racism, and Legacies of Enslavement in the Colombian Insular Caribbean

Based on the stories of three generations of women in San Andrés, Old Providence, and Ketlina, this paper explores how legacies of colonialism and racism are interrelated in their struggle for freedom in the heat of the abolition of slavery. I will first narrate the interracial scandal at the time of enslaved people's emancipation in the mid-nineteenth century with the famous case of white Pastor Livingston and the former enslaved Josephine Pomare, his maid, with whom he contracted a relationship that gave rise to a new generation of mixed-race pastors. The story will be approached through the last two publications of Miss Hazel Robinson, a foundational Colombian writer: Los siete delantales de mi abuela (The Seven Aprons of My Grandmother), and I will if I can, si je puis. I will delve into her biographical universe and the unpublished English translation she offered me after our interviews. I will do so by collating her work with the different conversations I had with two Raizal writers: Edna Rueda Abrahams, her granddaughter, a psychiatrist, author of "Me voy conmigo," and Keshia Howard Livingstone, literature teacher, member of the Baptist Church, author of "San Andres: Her Story."