Doña Ana

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Gender: F
Ethnic origin: Mulatto/a

Biographical details

From Tarma, Peru, she is described as having mixed black and Indian blood. In 1743 she led a women's battalion in the Juan Santos Atahualpa Serrano rebellion (1742-52) Jauja. (Stern, 46)

She led a fighting group of around 50 women in Juan Santos Atahualpa's messianic movement to liberate Indians. (Socolow, 160)

Life Events

Other

1743

She led a women's battalion in the Juan Santos Atahualpa Serrano rebellion.

References

Stern, Steve J., (1987), Resistance, Rebellion, and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World, 18th to 20th Centuries

Socolow, Susan Migden, (1999), The Women of Colonial Latin America

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