Leidy Marcela Alpízar Alpízar

lalpizar@yorku.ca

Leidy Marcela Alpízar Alpízar (ABD), is a Ph.D. Candidate in African History from York University, she is working on her current doctoral research, “The Impact of the Church Missionary Society in Yorubaland from 1841 to 1891”. Alpizar holds a master’s degree in history from Universidad de Costa Rica, and she is a tenured professor in the Humanities Department at the Caribbean Campus, Universidad de Costa Rica. She is part of the Researchers of the Cátedra de Estudios de África y el Caribe, where she has worked on Afro-Caribbean migrations to Costa Rica in the nineteenth century.

Keywords: Liberated Africans, Missionaries, Women, Social Impact, Nineteenth century, Yorubaland, Freetown