Pio de Jesús Pico was born May 5, 1801 at the Mission de San Gabriel Arcángel in what was then known as Alta California, Mexico, the son of a notable soldier. His grandmother was identified as a mulata, which under the Spanish caste system denoted a mixed race individual having both Spanish and African ancestry. After his father […]
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