Manuel Duque

I represent Manuel Duque, a free negro man born in Africa. I may have been the Manuel, “negro of the Congo Nation, slave of Juan del Duque,” who is listed in the confirmations conferred at Ft. Barrancas on May 21, 1798 by the Bishop of Louisiana and the Floridas, Rev. Luis Peñalver y Cardenas. At the time of the 1820 census of Pensacola, I was 59 years old, working as a day laborer. I lived with a free negra woman named Felicitas.