I represent Micaela Bonals, a parda girl born in Pensacola. At the time of the 1820 census of Pensacola, I was 8 years old. I lived with my father, Don Francisco Bonal, a Spaniard; my mother, Emilia Mombrun, a free woman of color; and – by the time of the changing of the flags – three 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.