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María Josefa Vergara

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Biographical details

She and several other women were sent from Cali to Popayán in December 1816 and 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)

Related to Jerónima Caicedo de Vergara?

Life Events

Other 1816She was exiled to Popayán.

References

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


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