#who is most likely the one who named her child as Don Alvarez de Velasco
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Thinking about Ledja again
#for context#ledja is hamilton's cousin Peter's mistress#a free black woman#and mother of Peter Lytton's son#who is most likely the one who named her child as Don Alvarez de Velasco#im so filled with curiosity about tbis woman#is de Velasco her last name?#is it last name of someone else in her life? maybe a past employer?#was she born free?#if not was jt thr name she adopted?#did she name her son Don because she wanted people to show him respect jn that regard at least#or was it a hint to the fact that tho he was a bastard child he was bastatd child of the Lyttons aka one of the richest planters in st croi#what became of them?#im just getting into this side of history#and still restricted to hamilton as the focal point#so maybe thats why they keep getting reduced to Hamilton's cousin once removed who got money while rhey were forgotten#because one scholar delivered a lecture on biracial/multiracial peeps in st croix by focusing on Don Alvarez#so what happened#GodddddDDDDDDDD#carribean history
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