![]() ![]() ![]() A generation later, Spanish rule in what is now Latin America finally shattered and many former colonies, including Peru, became independent republics.ĭecades later, a fellow Kentuckian, an African-American born in 1912, was named in honour of that abolitionist hero of his state. Nonetheless, Túpac Amaru II’s revolt was an important symbol, both in Peru and further beyond in Spanish America, of what a rebellion could achieve, especially one that emphasised the oppressed native peoples. Inca clothing and cultural traditions were banned by the authorities as a result. The rebellion was defeated in the end and Túpac Amaru II was brutally tortured and executed by the Spanish colonial authorities in 1781, most of his family put to death along with him. He captured and hanged the Governor of Tinta, Antonio de Arriagam, but ultimately failed to take the old Inca capital of Cuzco. He changed his name to Túpac Amaru II and launched a rebellion against oppressive Spanish rule under which the native peoples of Peru, descended from that same Inca Empire, were frequently enslaved in all but name. Born José Gabriel Condorcanqui Noguera, this Peruvian national hero came from royal Inca (Tahuantinsuya) blood and claimed to be the descendant of Túpac Amaru, the last Sapa Inca (emperor of the Inca Empire) who had been executed by the Spanish in 1572. ![]()
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