Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Law, empire, and politics in the revolutionary age -- Reform, revolution, and royalism in the Northern Andes : New Granada and Popayán, 1780-1825 -- Indian politics and Spanish justice in eighteenth-century Pasto -- The laws of slavery and the politics of freedom in late-colonial Popayán -- Negotiating loyalty : royalism and liberalism among Pasto Indian communities (1809-19) -- Slaves in the defense of Popayán : war, royalism, and freedom (1809-19) -- "The yoke of the greatest of all tyrannical intruders, Bolívar" : the royalist rebels in Colombia's southwest (1820-5) -- Conclusion: The law and social transformation in the early republic.…”