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In honor of Women's History Month William Loren Katz will discuss warrior women like Colonel Carmen Robles from two of his 40 of historical books!
"Colonel Carmen Amelia Robles, an Afro-Mexican Woman Leader in the Mexican Revolution"! Mexico provided a safe haven for black Freedom Seekers. Mexicans fought to prevent the spread of slavery in what is currently known as Texas.
Anacana one of the first daring Indigenous leaders to mobilize her Tiano people against the European invasion of 1492 was a young woman poet known as Anacoana or "Golden Flower".
As Spain's invaders tore her society apart, killed her relatives, and enslaved her people, Golden Flower rose to command the Tiano resistance. Her forces grew in strength and numbers when she united with the Africans who successfully resisted Spanish captivity.
Golden Flower was finally captured, and when she refused to assist the foreign invaders, she was executed.
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