Petrona de Vallecilla

Gender:Female

Ethnic origen: Unknown

Events:

1816  -  Popayán  -  Unknown  -  She was exiled here and held at the Convento del Carmen.
1816  -  Cali  -  Unknown  -  She was from here.

Connections:

Women exiled independence cause
Women held at Convento del Carmen, Popayán
Women imprisoned in convents

Biography:
From Cali, Colombia, she was sent to Popayán in December 1816 where she, and several other women were held in the Convento del Carmen. The royalist nuns treated them like "mujeres despreciables y de mala vida" for their support of the independence cause. (Monsalve, 259)

References:

Monsalve, José D (1926) Mujeres de la independencia