Their Mother, then a widow, had a bakery. She sold hardtack to the Spanish Govt. to stock ships when they sailed from here. She had those outdoor clay ovens in the back yard and it's said she had 2 small slave boys who stomped the dough to knead it. The Archaeologist from UWF did a study of the site their house was on prior to site becoming a new parking garage. They found some old shackels and the remains of a couple of the ovens buried under the concrete that was a parking lot for years. They didn't know the history of that site and I talked to one of the lead Arch's on it and was able to provide documentation so it's now an occasional display at the department's building at the University. I know it sounds awful. I'm not really pleased to know it but it was very much a way of life back then. Again, though there are some who would love to denounce the way of life, it was then still under the flag of Spain. It wasn't a US Territory then. Slavery was universal, and it still happening. One needs to understand the entire picture before they point fingers. Lot of short sighted people on some things it seems.
Pam