Toypurina Qurrat al-'Ayn African Women Warriors Dzugudini Matilda Joslyn Gage Qiu Jin Dolores Jimenez y Muro Koekchuch:

Lesbian Shamans Louise Michel Cécile Fatiman was a Vodunsi priestess who played a key role in sparking the 1791 revolution against slavery in Haiti. Abla Pokou led a group of refugees out of the Ashanti empire into Ivory Coast, where she founded the Baulé nation. Serafina Spicella was "the heroine of the Cilento riots" of Italy 1828. She was defiant under torture and got a 25-year sentence. Maria Stewart first American woman public speaker, for African-American and women's rights, in 1832-34 Anna Ipatescu , heroine of the 1848 rising of Romania against Russian and Turkish domination Harriet Tubman is famous as the woman who led hundreds of people out of slavery and as military strategist in the civil war. She said, "There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death. If I could not have one I should have the other, for no man should take me alive."

LIBERATORS In 1858 Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi, led a major insurrection against the British empire in India. "My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I want to drive the enemy away to save our people. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines."



-- Trieu Thi Trinh, Vietnam, 248 CE Home | More Articles | Catalog