I represent Francisco Venancio, a mulato boy enslaved in the household of Doña Maria Machado, the widow Caro. I was baptised by Father Coleman at St. Michael’s on April 28, 1817, a few weeks after I was born. My mother was Juana, a negra woman enslaved in the same household, and it is by virtue of her enslaved status that I was born into slavery. My father is listed as no conocido or unknown, which – as I was of mixed race – indicates he was most likely a white man who did not want to acknowledge me. At the time of the changing of the flags, I would have been about 4 years old. I had a little sister named Maria Juliana.