Virginia Dementricia

Virginia Dementricia (1842 – after 1861), was an enslaved woman on Aruba in the Dutch West Indies. She was enslaved by the planter Jan van der Biest, and was punished for a number of acts against slavery between 1859 and 1861. She was sold in 1861, after which there are no traces of her, but slavery was abolished in 1863, a mere two years later. Historically, she has become a symbolic figure and heroine for the fight against slavery on Aruba.[1]

References
  1. Luc Alofs, Virginia Dementricia, in: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland. URL: http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/Virginia [13/01/2014]

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