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Women and Independence in Latin America An exploration of women's involvement in the Latin American Wars of Independence |
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Women and Independence in Latin America An exploration of women's involvement in the Latin American Wars of Independence |
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Gender:Female
Ethnic origen: Black
Events:
| 1821 | - | Valencia | - | Patriot | - | She and her family fled and joined the patriots after the Battle of Carabobo on 24 June 1821. |
| 1823 | - | Venezuela | - | Unknown | - | She won a legal case for her freedom. |
Connections:
Slave women who used independence to gain freedomBiography:
A Venezuelan slave woman who, with her husband and two children, claimed her freedom after escaping from the royalist territory after the battle of Carabobo (24 June 1821). The son of their owner then donated them to the state and enlisted Ramírez's husband in the Apure batallón in his place. Ramírez appealed to the courts for their freedom, claiming "Señor, the poor and the unfortunate are regularly the plaything of the powerful, because the former can only with difficulty demonstrate to those who govern the latter's insults." She stated that her husband had been treated "as an animal" by their owner and that after the battle of Carabobo he had joined the patriots working as a spy and thus had earned his freedom. She won her case, in July 1823 and the intendant decreed, "having taken refuge in the free territory of the Republic, they cannot be reduced again to servitude". (Blanchard, 12)
References:
Blanchard, Peter (2004) Freedom and Family: Slave Women and the Wars of Independence in South America