Dupard Brothers in Spanish New Orleans in the Late 1700s Excerpt from "'Yo, Jose Dupard, Pardo Libre Natural Y Vecino De Esta Ciudad': Masculinity, Race and Respectability in Spanish New Orleans/Jose Dupard, A Free Man of Color in Spanish New Orleans". Article was shown on www.mixedracestudies.org and was truncated (the link to the rest of the article was no longer valid). The original article had been on IRINDERINDO: A Journal of African Migration.
The "unnamed partner" of Pedro was a "freed slave". The article excerpt (PDF) on the pages of Pedro and his sons, Jose and Carlos Dupard, gives a little insight into the struggles and status in society of these two sons at the time, as children considered illegitimate by their own parent and others of his class.