Susanna Cazenave

I represent Susanna Cazenave, a free pardo girl. My parents were Jean Baptiste Cazenave, a Frenchman who was part owner of the Tivoli House; and Nancy Cazenave, a free woman of color. 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. In the 1830 census of Pensacola, my mother was widowed, and as I was the third child listed in my father’s 1825 will, I was probably one of the two Black female slisted in her household between the ages of 10 and 24 years old – probably on the older end of that spectrum, as all of my parents’ six children were listed in the will, so we were all around by 1825.

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Race Parda
Sex Female
Marital Status Single
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