This article will analyze the biased position that the writer Teresa González de Fanning has with her character Chavelita, who is a woman of color that is part of the nineteenth-century novel Roque Moreno. We propose that this bias is because Chavelita fulfills the feminine-domestic ideal that the writer defended and professed from her position as an enlightened woman.

This article examines gender coloniality and its influence on the perception of black masculinity in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s Sab. In the novel, the Afro-descendant man is perceived as a threat to the colonial order and white femininity, which betrays the «black fear». Important themes are presented in a superficial tone, as the protagonist’s goal is not to abolish slavery, but to free himself in order to love Carlota. From this it is identified that the novel’s anti-slavery message is ineffective, as Sab is a spokesperson for the white feminist struggle and is denied her own liberation by presenting the antislavery struggle as an inferior concern to women’s liberation.