Virgins of Galindo
The phrase Virgins of Galindo refers to three sisters (aged 7–16) who were slaughtered, and then raped and dismembered just after the assassination of their father, at the Galindo Manor, located outside the city walls of Santo Domingo, several weeks after the annexation of Santo Domingo by Haiti in 1822.
Contrary to the belief among the Dominican society (specially among poets, historians, school curricula) that these crimes are attributed to Haitian occupation soldiers,[1] some archives suggest that these crimes were not committed by Haitian officers, but by civilian men from both sides of the island (i. e., Haitians and Dominicans).[2][3]
Family members
The Andújar family was of Canarian descent, and native to Hincha in the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo. After the Haitian invasions of 1801 and 1805 they settled on the outskirts of Santo Domingo.[1]
- Father: Andrés Antonio Andújar de Soto (he was brother-in-law to both President Buenaventura Báez and José de Guzmán y Meléndez, viscount of San Rafael de La Angostura and lord of San Miguel de la Atalaya)
- Mother: María Manuela de Lara Pérez (deceased prior 1822)
- "Virgins":
- Ana María Clemente Andújar de Lara
- Marcela Andújar de Lara
- Águeda Andújar de Lara
References to the slaughter in Dominican literature
- Cosas Añejas (Chapter: Las Vírgenes de Galindo), by César Nicolás Penson (1891)
- La Conspiración de los Alcarrizos, by Max Henríquez Ureña (1940)
- Centinela de la Frontera, by Joaquín Balaguer (1962)
- Yania Tierra, by Aída Cartagena Portalatín (1981)
References
- ^ a b Guerra Sánchez, Antonio José Ignacio (17 March 2007). "Toponimia y Genealogía: Galindo o Barrio de Mejoramiento Social (11 de 15)". Cápsulas Genealógicas en Areíto (in Spanish). Instituto Dominicano de Genealogía. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
- ^ García Peña, Lorgia. "Black monsters and white virgins: a narration of the Dominican nation". Dominicanidad in Contra(diction).[dead link]
- ^ "La representación cambiante de Haití" (PDF). Revista Estudios Sociales (in Spanish) (151). Centro Bonó: 66–67. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2014-12-15.