The phrase Virgins of Galindo refers to three sisters (aged 7–16) who were slaughtered, and then raped and dismembered just after the assassination of their father, at the Galindo Manor, located outside the

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, several weeks after the annexation of Santo Domingo by Haiti in 1822. Contrary to the belief among the Dominican society (specially among poets, historians, school curricula) that these crimes are attributed to Haitian occupation soldiers, some archives suggest that these crimes were ''not'' committed by Haitian officers, but by civilian men from both sides of the island (i. e., Haitians and Dominicans).

Family members

The Andújar family was of Canarian descent, and native to

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in the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo. After the Haitian invasions of 1801 and 1805 they settled on the outskirts of Santo Domingo. * Father: Andrés Antonio Andújar de Soto (he was brother-in-law to both President

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, viscount of San Rafael de La Angostura and lord of San Miguel de la Atalaya) : ''Mother: María Manuela de Lara Pérez (deceased prior 1822)'' * "Virgins": #Ana María Clemente Andújar de Lara #Marcela Andújar de Lara #Águeda Andújar de Lara

References to the slaughter in Dominican literature

* ''Cosas Añejas'' (Chapter: ''Las Vírgenes de Galindo''), by César Nicolás Penson (1891) * ''La Conspiración de los Alcarrizos'', by Max Henríquez Ureña (1940) * ''Centinela de la Frontera'', by

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(1962) * ''Yania Tierra'', by Aída Cartagena Portalatín (1981)

References

{{Reflist 1822 in the Caribbean Massacres in the Dominican Republic History of the Dominican Republic History of Haiti Dominican Republic–Haiti relations Dominican Republic people of Canarian descent White Dominicans