Eufrosina Hinard (also spelled Hisnard; 1777 – after 1819), was a businesswoman who lived in New Orleans and Pensacola, Spanish West Florida.
[2] In 1791, she was placéed to Nicolás María Vidal, a legal counselor to the governor of Spanish Louisiana.
[5] Hinard and her daughters lived in New Orleans until 1803, when it was ceded to the French at which time they moved with Vidal to Pensacola, Spanish West Florida.
The dispute was held up in court until 1821, after Mercedes and Caroline petitioned the new American governor, Andrew Jackson, to intervene in the case.
[4] While it was becoming difficult, if not impossible, for slaves to purchase their own freedom from their owners in the United States, Hinard still allowed the practice with her own slaves after the cession of Spanish East and West Florida to the U.S.[2] Hinard considered her slaveholding as a "business practice, not a human condition.