Maria Juliana (Caro)

I represent Maria Juliana, a girl of color enslaved in the household of Doña Maria Machado, the widow Caro. I was baptised by Father Coleman at St. Michael’s on February 10, 1819, about a month after I was born. My mother was Juana, a negra woman enslaved in the same household, and it is by virtue of her enslaved status that I was born into slavery. My father is listed as no conocido or unknown – which usually meant the man did not want, or was unable, to acknowledge me. I had a brother named Francisco Venancio.