Born: 14 February 1832, Cuba
Died: 7 February 1901
Country most active: Cuba
Also known as: NA
The following is excerpted from “400 Outstanding Women of the World and the Costumology of Their Time” by Minna Moscherosch Schmidt, published in 1933.
Born in Camagiiey and married Ignacio Mora y Pera in August, 1854. When the preparatory work of the revolution was started in Camagiiey, during 1868, she took an active part together with her husband, who was executed by the Spanish troops on October 14, 1875. Besides this cooperation with her husband, she is a significant, outstanding and important figure in the history of Cuba, as she was the precursor of women’s political rights in Cuba.
She proclaimed these rights at Guaimaro on the occasion of the organization of the powers of the Republic in arms, on April, 1869.
The first president of the Republic in arms, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, remarked, that history when describing the decisive moments of the national life, would narrate the fact that Ana Betancourt, in advance of her time, pleaded the emancipation of women.