Jose Carlos de la Puente on Witness to the Age of Revolution

Charles Walker and Liz Clarke’s Witness to the Age of Revolution is a formidable teaching tool. This graphic history recounts the transatlantic “odyssey” of Juan Bautista Tupa Amaro, who was to spend forty years exiled in Spain and North Africa after his involvement in the massive revolt that, spearheaded among others by his much more celebrated half- brother José Gabriel, shook the foundations of colonial rule in the Andes between 1780 and 1783. A prisoner between that year and the year 1822, and the sole survivor of the Tupa Amaro clan, Juan Bautista published an account of his captivity after regaining his freedom and traveling back to South America. Unable or unwilling to return to his native Cuzco, he died in Buenos Aires in 1827, at the age of eighty. He lies buried in an unmarked tomb. 


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