Maria Cristina Fragas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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cuban writer
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Place of Birth: Güines, Cuba
About Maria Cristina Fragas
- Maria Cristina Fragas (July 24, 1856 – April 20, 1936) was a Cuban writer of African origin.
- She wrote under the name Cristina Ayala. The daughter of a Creole mother who was a slave and an unknown father, she was born free in Güines.
- Her work was published in various newspapers and journals including El Pueblo Libre and El Sufragista, as well as in Minerva, a magazine dedicated to black women for which she was a founding editor.
- She is believed to be the first Afro-Hispanic writer to talk about race in her poetry.
- In her work, she opposed slavery and racial inequality and supported national independence for all Cubans.In 1912, she married Cecilio Larrondo.Fragas died in Güines at the age of 79.A collection of her work Ofrendas Mayabequinas was published in 1926 with a foreword by Valentin Cuesta Jimenez.After her death, the town council for Güines named a street in her honour.
- The street was renamed after the Cuban Revolution and no longer exists.
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