The event, which brings together historians and researchers, had as its first act the presentation “From Mariana Grajales’ lineage”, by Doctor Damaris Amparo Torres, of the University of Oriente.

The historian from Santiago highlighted how often, the illustrious figure of Grajales has been treated in the bibliography “always in the shadow of her sons Maceo”, stressing the need to rescue her own leading role.

She pointed out that after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, essential works emerged that began to recognize her full legacy, such as the research “Mariana Grajales: 200 years in history and memory”.

With academic precision, Torres cleared up historical inaccuracies, stating that, against some accounts, Mariana Grajales was born in Santiago de Cuba on July 12, 1815, a fact corroborated by her baptism record found at the Churh of Santo Tomas Apostle.

She also refuted theories about Dominican origins, reaffirming her Cuban roots.

The expert narrated the resilience of a mestizo woman who, after widowing young, faced the discrimination of the time and forged a new family with the patriot Marcos Maceo, with whom she had ten children, most devoted to the struggle for independence.

“She is a woman who grows up and faces the whole situation of the time,” she stressed, despite not having been able to receive a formal education.

The formal inauguration of the Day was in charge of Fernando Miguel Manzo Alonso, president of the Union of Historians of Cuba (UNHIC) in Camagüey, a crucial province in the national history for having been the seat of the first Constitution of the Republic in Arms, in 1869.

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