Lacoste, P. Instituto de Estudios Humanisticos Abate molina. Universidad de Talca, Casilla 721, 2 Norte 685, Talca-Chile.Disponible en http://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/iberoamericana/ojs/index.php/iberoamericana/article/viewFile/1358/1063This article examines a story of love in a slavery scenario. A manumission of Luis Suárez and a juridical process in consequence, has allowed us to know interesting details about an emotional dimension of that regime, which could affect not only the African-American population but as well Creoles and Liberated. The research reveals emotional sensibilities of the Latin-American lower-class people at the end of the 18th century.