Manuel Antonio Ay
Manuel Antonio Ay (1817-1847) was a Yucatec Maya military leader and revolutionary, and chief of the village of Chichimila.[1] In 1847, he met with , , and to plan the uprising that would become the Caste War. Reportedly, he stated that his goal was to have the white men driven from the Peninsula. He was discovered when a bartender found a suspicious letter he had left in his hat, and was arrested and soon afterwards executed on July 26th of the same year, under order of Miguel Barbachano, President of the Republic of Yucatán. His corpse was transferred to , where it was buried, just after being exhibited to warn the rebels.[2]
References[]
- Reed, Nelson. (1964) The Caste War of Yucatan Stanford University Press, Palo Alto.
- ^ "E-leaders". www.museogc.com. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
- ^ (in Spanish) Raúl Casares G. Cantón, Juan Duch Colell; Michel Antochiw Kolpa; Silvio Zavala et álias, Yucatán en el tiempo, Mérida, 1998. ISBN 970 9071 04 1
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