Latin American independence was led by landowners, not middle classes

Evidence

The evidence clearly suggests that leadership was held by substantial landowners, allied with a somewhat smaller number of merchants, and various types of professional (lawyers, military men, local and provincial functionaries). — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 215

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Creole revolutionaries sought to preserve parallelism, not to overthrow the Old World — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 720

Related

• Creole revolutionaries sought to preserve parallelism, not to overthrow the Old World (similarity 0.80)
• Early USA was just another creole-led revolutionary state, sometimes more reactionary. (similarity 0.80)
• Fear of slave uprisings helped drive Latin American independence (similarity 0.80)
• Fear of lower-class uprisings drove creole bids for independence (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Creole revolutionaries sought to preserve parallelism, not to overthrow the Old World #corroborates (0.85) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 720