Maria Chinquinquira Diaz Maroon Of Ecuador.

Maria Chiquinquira Diaz was an Afro Ecudorian woman of Niger Ancestry. others claimed her maternal Ancestors came from the Niger regions brought to Ecuador she was the first woman to stand up and fought the Spanish plantation owners called Presbyter Afonso Cepeda de Arizcum Elizondo. 

Maria daughter was also captured as a enslaved she fought for her daughter freedom in 1794. She freed 1,000 black women in Ecuador and rebelled against the Spanish but she was forced to work on Sundays on the plantations but she refused.

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