Profiles a Mexican woman who saved more than twenty Texan rebels taken prisoner during the Texas Revolution from being shot under General Santa Anna's orders.
Francisca Alvarez is one of America's greatest unsung heroes. This book dramatically recounts her daring rescue of American prisoners from slaughter during the Texas War for Independence. Her compassionate treatment of these soldiers was a watershed moment in the growth of America as a nation.
The author tells the story of the "The Angel of Goliad" and her descendants. During the Texas Revolution in 1836, a beautiful, innocent 20-year-old lady traveled with the Mexican Army as an educator for General Urrea's family. Abducted by the Apache at a young age, she was raised in a Catholic orphanage where she became well-educated and very religious. She had no idea what she was getting into when she arrived in Goliad, Texas, with General Urrea and his family. With her love and respect for humanity, she knew she had to do something to stop the killing. Francisca Alvarez tried desperately to stop the massacre of hundreds of young American soldiers defending Texas. Yet, for nearly 200 years, no one has uncovered her true identity. Based on a true story.
A thorough investigation into the life of Texas heroine Francisca Alvarez. During the Texas Revolution of 1836, a young, beautiful 20-year-old Mexican lady risked everything to save American prisoners from execution in Goliad, Texas. However, because of Mexican President Santa Anna's orders to execute them all, it became known as the Goliad Massacre. As a descendant, the author studied the historical testimonials for over 35 years, trying to find her true identity. No one knew her real name since she used different names when speaking to the Presidio La Bahia soldiers. In his research. he found that at a very young age, the Apache abducted her and lived with them for several years before being found and taken to an orphanage in San Luis Potosi. There, she was educated and became a pious, brilliant young lady. General Urrea's family hired her as a governess, leading her to come to Texas at Presidio La Bahia during the Texas Revolution. Because she saved many American soldiers, they proclaimed her The Angel of Goliad, Texas heroine.
The author describes his investigation process and the results and findings of the 1836 Texas Revolution heroine Francisca Alvarez. He answers questions surrounding the mystery of her true identity. It also reports stories of her descendant's past and today in 2023.
The author describes his investigation process and the results and findings of the 1836 Texas Revolution heroine Francisca Alvarez. He answers questions surrounding the mystery of her true identity. It also reports stories of her descendant's past and today in 2023.
Colombia has the largest black population in the Spanish-speaking world, but Afro-Colombians have long remained at the nation's margins. Their recent irruption into the political, social, and cultural spheres is tied to appeals to cultural difference, dramatized by the traditional music of Colombia's majority-black Southern Pacific region, often called currulao. Yet that music remains largely unknown and unstudied despite its complexity, aesthetic appeal, and social importance. Rites, Rights & Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia's Black Pacific is the first book-length academic study of currulao, inquiring into the numerous ways it has been used: to praise the saints, to grapple with modernization, to dramatize black politics, to perform the nation, to generate economic development and to provide social amelioration in a context of war. Author Michael Birenbaum Quintero draws on both archival and ethnographic research to trace these and other understandings of how currulao has been understood, illuminating a history of struggles over the meanings of currulao that are also struggles over the meanings of blackness in Colombia. Moving from the eighteenth century to the present, Rites, Rights & Rhythms asks how musical meaning is made, maintained, and sometimes abandoned across historical contexts as varied as colonial slavery, twentieth-century national populism, and neoliberal multiculturalism. What emerges is both a rich portrait of one of the hemisphere's most important and understudied black cultures and a theory of history traced through the performative practice of currulao.