I represent Ana Alexandra Cazenave, a free parda girl born in Pensacola in 1816. My parents were Jean Baptiste Cazenave, a Frenchman who was part owner of the Tivoli House; and Nancy Cazenave, a free woman of color. I was baptized by Father Coleman at St. Michaels on July 17, 1817. Families of mixed ethnicity like ours were quite common in Spanish West Florida, as the Spanish did not have the same social taboos as Anglo-American society. I was probably the child referred to as “Annette” in my father’s 1825 will, and one of the children of color between the ages of 10 and 24 listed in my widowed mother’s household in the 1830 U.S. Census.
Ana Alexandra (“Annette”) Cazenave
