I represent Domingo Salvador Recio, a free pardo boy born in New Orleans in 1809. I was born into slavery but manumitted at my baptism by my father, who was also my owner. At the time of the 1820 census of Pensacola, I was 12 years old. I lived in the household of my father, Domingo Recio, an Italian billiard parlor keeper; my mother, Maria Luisa, a free negra woman from Santo Domingo who worked as a laundress, and my little sister, Juana. (The 1820 census gives my name as Dominico, which may be the way my Italian father pronounced it.)