2023-05-24 20:00:00
Los sellers from the time of 25 of May of 1810 are characterized as “River Plate Afroporteños”due to the importance of the outfit they used to use, is understood as a ‘cultural artifact’. The garments worn by the social sector represented an attitude of silent resistance towards oppression.
The craft activity and the street trade in cities like Buenos Aires It was carried out by a population of African origin that, for the most part, was enslaved. The life and fate of each subject depended on various factors: he did live in the city, if he knew how to speak Spanish and had learned a trade. The ability to save money was the key to his freedom.
The need, covered in its most elementary form. The men and women who made up this stratum of the community in 1810 were dressed in cotton clothes, which were the cheapest on the market, or with garments discarded by the people who owned them. Serfs had two distinguishing characteristics. Which were?
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What were the two distinguishing characteristics of the street vendors’ clothing?
The first were the patches, which reached the rags, and the second was the footwear, shoes belonging to their owners, which almost never matched the size of their feet, accustomed to not having lasts to hold them.
Usually the slaves they wore a bayeton jacket, trousers of the same material, and a chiripá. Normally they walked barefoot or with tamangos, which were a kind of flip flops made of the sole or rawhide of a bovine animal or sheep, wrapped around the foot with cotton.
What items were peddlers selling in the 1810s?
- Candles
- brooms
- Agua
- leche
- Plumeros
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“As for the women slaves It was common to see them dressed in a baize-cotton skirt, petticoat finished with lace and a doublet. The trousseau was completed with a scarf tied around the neck, but which was used on the street tied under the chin to cover the head. In winter they wore a poncho and almost always went barefoot. Although these garments were the cheapest in the plaza, most of them wore the clothes discarded by the women of the family to which they belonged”, described the self-taught Argentine historian, Andrés Carretero.
The B side of May 25, 1810 and the famous patriotic proclamation “Hot Mazamorra, for old women without teeth”
The women were street vendors of mazamorra and lived a really cruel daily life, because of each sale made they only obtained the tiny sum of 0.03 pesos. To this, we must add the wages deducted by their masters, so that in order to pay for the production and their own maintenance, they had to buy tens of thousands of portions for years to reach the goal of being free.
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As a consequence of the economic suffering that plagued them, they resorted to prostitution and were denounced by the neighborhood mayors as “immodest”, which has obscured the meaning of their famous proclamation. “Hot porridge, for old women without teeth”. Because most of them were slaves of widows, so the reference they made in the rhyme was in more than one case a personal allusion.
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