El adeudo abolicionista de Bolívar con Pétion visto desde el prisma historiográfico y epistolar

Abstract

The relationship between Simón Bolívar El Libertador and the President of the Republic of Haiti, Alexandre Pétion, was determinant for the Hispano American Revolution. The President of Haiti supported the Bolivarian project with money, arms, a portable press and soldiers, and only asNed for one thing in return: the Slave Emancipation Bill in Venezuela once Bolivar set foot in his country. This article analyzes why Bolivar arrived in Haiti and how he was politically, intellectually and mentally prepared to assume this controversial abolitionist treatment with the great president of Haiti. To achieve this we turn to the historiographical debate of an instant, as well as to the epistolary sources of the Liberator, Miranda, Pétion, Senator Marion, among other Ney figures of this period.