I represent Juana, a negra woman enslaved in the household of Doña Maria Machado, the widow Caro. I appear in my children’s baptismal records from St. Michael’s – my son’s in 1817 and my daughter’s in 1819. Francisco Venancio and Maria Juliana were born into slavery by virtue of my enslaved status, and their fathers were listed as no conocido or unknown – which usually means the man either does not want, or is not able, to acknowledge the child.