I represent Jean Baptiste Cazenave, a free pardo boy. My parents were Jean Baptiste Cazenave, a Frenchman who was part owner of the Tivoli house; and Nancy Cazenave, a free woman of color. 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. In the 1830 census of Pensacola, my mother was widowed, and as I was the first child listed in my father’s 1825 will, I was probably the Black male listed in her household between the ages of 10 and 24 years old – probably on the older end of that spectrum, as all of my parents’ six children were listed in the will, so we were all around by 1825.