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Writing Type: Petition
Extract from a petition in which she expresses regret of the plight of married women and their suboridination to their husbands.
Keywords: colonial women, marriage, duty
Archive: Hallworth Library, University of Nottingham
Location Details: Reproduced in Arlene Díaz, Female Citizens, Patriarchs, and the Law in Venezuela, 1786-1904, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 2004, p.1, 96
Text: June 6, 1794
How hard is the plight of married women! One rarely finds a husband who has the same regard towards his consorte ... The husband becomes a tyrant, the wife a slave, the home hell, and the children unfortunate witnesses of this horrible and lamentable metamorphosis. ... Marriage, though a sacrament, always remains a pact.
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