Article ID: CBB001212898

“Like Herod's Massacre”: Quarantines, Bourbon Reform, and Popular Protest in Oaxaca's Smallpox Epidemic, 1796--1797 (2012)

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Ramírez, Paul (Author)


Americas
Volume: 69, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 203-235

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: At the end of August 1796, Balthasar Ruiz, a weaver from Teotitlán del Valle, departed with his son to sell woven goods in the mountainous region to the south. Over 23 days, he traveled a distance of 45 miles as the crow flies and upon his return was jailed when the boy fell ill with smallpox. The two had made a typical journey in an atypical time: administrators throughout the intendancy of Oaxaca were actively pursuing a program of contagion avoidance as smallpox spread there from Guatemala and Chiapas. What Oaxaca's intendant, Antonio de Mora y Peysal, called the "new project" consisted of regulating travel and commerce and isolating infected residents in casas de curación. In Teotitlán, textile producers found themselves at the outskirts of their village laboring to build a makeshift infirmary for their children and a camposanto, a consecrated field, for burial of smallpox victims. Months later, some from the village would call the regime a violation "like Herod's massacre." At the time, quarantined in their village without access to markets or crops, there was little else for the men to do.

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Authors & Contributors
Mercuriale, Girolamo
Giulia Delogu
Cinzia Recca
Hanmin Park
Giovanni Assereto
Chircop, John
Concepts
Public health
Epidemics
Quarantine
Smallpox
Disease and diseases
Plague
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Early modern
20th century, early
Renaissance
20th century
Places
Venice (Italy)
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Japan
Canada
Mexico
Brazil
Institutions
Hudson's Bay Company
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