I represent Celeste, a negra woman enslaved in the household of Doña Maria Felicita Lavalle, the widow Gagnet. I appear in my daughter’s 1817 baptismal record from St. Michael’s. Eufemia was born into slavery by virtue of my enslaved status, and her father was listed as no conocido (unknown) though this usually means the man either did not want, or was unable, to acknowledge the child.