Overall, resistance in the Afro-Colombian Pacific demonstrates that although there is no watertight way to compartmentalize freedom and slavery, the two conditions are to be considered beyond codes, while noting their prevalence. The two intertwine, creating a tension ratcheted up by social practices, racial representations and discussions which not only create feelings of freedom as a political tool for confrontation and struggle, but also project exclusion. It should be emphasized at the outset that it was, in many ways, indigenous Colombian Pacific groups that ushered in the process of resistance and confrontation in the face of the conquistadors and Spanish power.