of her wishing to resign her case against the boyar. Her lawyer and her fought all the way to the supreme court of Wallachia. The court declared her and her children, once and for all, “free from slavery.” Legacy Adrian-Nicolae Furtună states that the case of Ioana Rudăreasa is representative of “several other Romani slaves’ efforts to challenge their masters through the legal means available to them at the time.” Her efforts in fighting for freedom are important to the history of Romanian Roma. The case also demonstrates the lasting self-interest of the boyars in their attempts to keep their slaves. Rudăreasa's freedom was granted three years before the final abolition of slavery in Romania on the 20th of February, 1856, which finally freed the slaves of the Romanian boyars. See also Romani people in Romania References External links Documentary about Ioana Rudăreasa by Centrul Național de Cultură a Romilor (Romano Kher) (In Romanian) Biography of Ioana Rudăreasa at the Romani Herstory Digital Archive Romanian Romani people 19th-century Romanian women