Babe

Gender: female
Race: black
Birthplace: Louisiana Creole
Age (when this record was documented): 30.0
Other comments: 13 more slaves are seized on 1/17/1794 to cover the costs of the lawsuits. Legal suit by Antoine Peytavin against Juan Bautista Mercier. A number of slaves are embargoed by Peytavin.

Selling Information
Last Name of Deceased: Mercier
Name of the Buyer: Bartolome Bosque
Grouping: sold or inventoried as an individual
Currency of Inventory: piastre = 1p
Inventory Value: 400
Selling Currency: p
Selling Value: 420
Selling Value: 420

Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
Document Date: 1793-08-12
Document Number (from the document): 1
Date of Inventory: 17940117
Date of Sale: 17940623
Type of document:
Any documents involving maroons, including reports of runaways, interrogation of caputred runaways, and testimony by slaves about runaways: no
Language: Spanish
Is this document of linguistic interest?: no
Is this inventory or sale of an estate of a free person of African descent?: no

Skill and Trade Information
Skills and Occupations: cook, laundress and ironer
Skill: cook, cuisinier, cocinero
Skill: laundry, ironing, blanchisseur, repasseur

Personality

Family Information
Was this slave inventoried with his/her mother?: no
Was this slave sold with his/her mother?: no

Importation Information
Was this slave being emancipated?: no
Slave listed as dead?: no