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Juana Bautista Páez

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Gender: F
Ethnic origin: Mulatto/a

Biographical details

She was a parda slave who claimed to have given Josef Quintero 250 pesos for her liberty. In 1788 she went to the courts after he refused to give her papers stating that she was free. The Quintero family denied there had been a document, but the courts took up Páez's cause and the necessary paper was "found". (Díaz, 87)

Life Events

Other 1788She appealed to the courts following her master's reluctance to free her.

References

Díaz, Arlene J., (2004), Female Citizens, Patriarchs and the Law in Venezuela, 1796-1904


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