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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: Unknown
Events:
| 1816? | - | Tenza | - | Unknown | - | She may have been executed here. |
| 1818 | - | Zapatoca | - | Unknown | - | She is said to have been executed in Zapatoca. |
| 1818? | - | Ciénaga de Zapatosa | - | Patriot | - | She is said to have been shot here by the royalists. |
| 1820? | - | Bogotá | - | Unknown | - | She may have been executed here on 10 May. |
Connections:
Women commemorated in statues, streets, airportsBiography:
Born in Tenza, Knaster claims that she was one of the heroines of Tenza who was shot in 1816. (Knaster, 486.)
Díaz y Díaz gives her execution date as March 1818 in Zapatosa. Her name appears on the plaque in Tenza. (Díaz y Díaz, 293)
She was shot in Socorro on 21 December 1816. (P. Forero, 45)
She worked as a spy and persuaded many other women to join the independence cause. She was shot in Bogotá on 10 May (1820?) (P. Forero, 160)
References:
Díaz y Díaz, Oswaldo (1962) Los Almeydas: Episodios de la resistencia patriota contra el ejército pacificador de tierra firme
Forero, Paulo E. (1972) Las heroinas olvidadas de la independencia
Hincapie Borda, Alicia (2000) Tras la imagen y la presencia de Policarpa
Knaster, Meri (1977) Women in Spanish America: An Annotated Bibliography from Pre-Conquest to Contemporary Times