Maria ter Meetelen [SEP] native language
Maria ter Meetelen
Maria ter Meetelen (20 June 1704, Amsterdam – "fl." 1751), was a Dutch writer of an autobiography. Her biography is considered to be a valuable witness statement of the life of a former slave (1748).
Meetelen was a child from the slum. She enlisted in the Spanish army disguised as a man in 1725. After this, she lived in Spain as a nun until she married. The couple was on a ship destined for the Netherlands in 1731, when
, where the traces of her disappear.
Further reading.
- Maria ter Meetelen, "The Curious and Amazing Adventures of Maria ter Meetelen; Twelve Years a Slave (1731- 43)", Translated and Introduced by Caroline Stone. (Hardinge Simpole, 2010). .
External links.
- http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/DVN/lemmata/data/Meetelen