Known in her later years as “Old Flo,” Flora was enslaved in what is now Manchester by members of the Pitkin family, owners of Pitkin Glassworks. She was the mother of at least five children, whose births were recorded in town vital records by her enslaver, Elisha Pitkin. When Pitkin died, he directed his heirs to “take care of and provide for my Negro Woman Flora during her Natural Life to be paid in equal proportion by them or their Executors hereafter named to reserve in their hands a sufficiency for her.”