Antonio María Casano

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Ethnic origin: White

Biographical details

A royalist military governor of Bogotá who established the Beneficencia y Caridad society in Bogotá. This was established as a punishment for women who had participated in the independence cause. Women were made to provide beds, seats, bandages, clothes, sheets, linen etc. Some were invited to join the society, others were told. Other duties included sewing uniforms for the troops. Women who were not exiled by Morillo in August 1816 were forced to make uniforms and were not allowed to leave their barrios. A few of these women were named; it is likely that the society and sewing circles were much bigger than these numbers suggest. (Monsalve, 157-158)

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1816

In August 1816 he was royalist military governor of Bogotá. He created the Sociedad Beneficence y Caridad.

References

Monsalve, José D, (1926), Mujeres de la independencia

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