Manuel Carlos Piar
Born in Willemstad, Curaçao, to a Canary Islands merchant and an Afro-Curaçaoan mother of Venezuelan-Dutch descent, Manuel Carlos Piar rose from the racial constraints of the pardo caste to become a General-in-Chief in the Venezuelan War of Independence. A self-taught polyglot fluent in Dutch, Spanish, French, English, Papiamento, and Guinean, he cut his teeth in the Curaçaoan militia and the Haitian revolutionary forces before joining Bolívar's cause in 1810. His decisive victory at the Battle of San Félix on April 11, 1817, secured the Guayana province for the patriots and gave the Liberator a strategic base. Piar's insistence on the equal rights of mestizo and Black soldiers put him at odds with the criollo elite; charged with sedition, he was executed by firing squad at the cathedral of Angostura on October 16, 1817.
“The revolution is not complete while any man remains unequal.”
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Manuel Carlos Piar
Born in Willemstad, Curaçao, to a Canary Islands merchant and an Afro-Curaçaoan mother of Venezuelan-Dutch descent, Manuel Carlos Piar rose from the racial constraints of the pardo caste to become a General-in-Chief in the Venezuelan War of Independence. A self-taught polyglot fluent in Dutch, Spanish, French, English, Papiamento, and Guinean, he cut his teeth in the Curaçaoan militia and the Haitian revolutionary forces before joining Bolívar's cause in 1810. His decisive victory at the Battle of San Félix on April 11, 1817, secured the Guayana province for the patriots and gave the Liberator a strategic base. Piar's insistence on the equal rights of mestizo and Black soldiers put him at odds with the criollo elite; charged with sedition, he was executed by firing squad at the cathedral of Angostura on October 16, 1817.
“The revolution is not complete while any man remains unequal.”
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