MarĂ­a Josefa Yermo de Yermo

Gender:Female

Ethnic origen: Unknown

Events:

1800-1900?  -  Cuernavaca  -  Unknown  -  She owned a hacienda here.

Connections:

Abolitionists

Biography:
A hacendada from Cuernavaca, Mexico, who liberated 500 black and mulatto slaves from her haciendas. (Domenella, 364.)

References:

Domenella, Ana Rosa, and Pasternac, Nora (editor). (1997) Las voces olvidadas: Antologia critica de narradoras mexicanas en el siglo XIX