Maria Tomásia Figueira Lima

Maria Tomásia Figueira Lima (6 December 1826 – 1902) was a Brazilian aristocrat and abolitionist.

Maria Tomásia Figueira was born 6 December 1826, in Sobral, a municipality in the interior of Ceará.

[4] Her parents were Ana Francisca Figueira de Melo and José Xerez Furna.

[3][6] In 1882, together with twenty-two abolitionist women of prominent families,[7] including Elvira Pinho,[8] Francisca Nunes da Cruz, Carolina Cordeiro , Luduvina Borges, Eugênia Amaral, Jacinta Souto, Maria Teófilo Morais, Maria Nunes Façanha, Lina Bezerra and Joana Bezerra, among others,[9] Figueira participated in the founding of the Sociedade das Senhoras Libertadoras ou Cearenses Libertadoras.

According to the Dicionário da escravidão negra no Brasil, it was installed on January 6, 1883 with the name Sociedade Abolicionista Feminina.