I represent Josefa Gonzalez, a parda girl born in Pensacola. At the time of the 1820 census of Pensacola, I was 12 years old, and living in the household of my parents: Manuel Gonzalez, a Spanish business owner, and Ysabel Folch, a free negra woman; and two younger siblings. 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.