Maria Luisa (Recio)

I represent Maria Luisa, a free negra woman born in Santo Domingo about 1787. At the time of my son‘s 1809 baptism in New Orleans, I was still enslaved in the household of his father, Domingo Recio. Presumably I was freed at some time after that, but researchers have not yet found a record of it. At the time of the 1820 census of Pensacola, I was 33 years old and I worked as a laundress. I and my two children (Domingo Salvador and Juana) lived in the household of Domingo Recio, an Italian billiard parlor keeper.