Clara Lavalle

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Gender: F
Ethnic origin: Black

Biographical details

A slave woman from Lima who in 1823 who tried to use the new independent legal system to gain her freedom. She drew on "the superior decrees issued in favour of freedom promulgated by edict in this capital", criticising "those laws contrary to freedom and independence" in Lima. Her owner claimed that slaves did not understand the law. (Blanchard, 11)

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1823

She used the new laws of independence to try to obtain her freedom.

References

Blanchard, Peter, (2004), Freedom and Family: Slave Women and the Wars of Independence in South America

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Gendering Latin American Independence

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