I represent Adeline (also known as Ines) Pargas. I was an enslaved mulata girl in the household of Bernardo Pargas and Ortauna Maria del Carmen, the free woman of color who shared his home. In his 1836 will, five years of my service was bequeathed to Manuel Pargas (an adult negro man Bernardo had recently manumitted) and Nicholas Pargas, a recently manumitted negro child. After that five years, the executors of Bernardo’s estate were to grant me my freedom, which was done by Deed of Manumission in 1842. Bernardo’s will describes me as quadroon.