Dimba

Gender: male
Race: black
Birthplace: Manding
Age (when this record was documented): 25.0
Other comments: (DOCDATE estimated) Estate 2 arpents front x 60 deep, 10 lgs. from N.O., on the Rbank, bordered above by Christophe Troxclair and below by land of the Widow Bourgeois mere, 3 aprs.of bad rice in grass? straw? "en lerbe"

Selling Information
Last Name of Deceased: Bourgeois
Estate Number: 06-S-119-003-1796
Name of the Buyer: George Rixner
Grouping: sold or inventoried as an individual
Currency of Inventory: piastre = 1p
Inventory Value: 350
Selling Currency: p
Selling Value: 480
Selling Value: 480

Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: St. Charles (old German Coast)
Document Date: 1796-12-06
Document Number (from the document): 0
Date of Inventory: 17960715
Date of Sale: 17960808
Type of document:
Any documents involving maroons, including reports of runaways, interrogation of caputred runaways, and testimony by slaves about runaways: no
Language: French
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: good woodsman, rower
Skill: woodsman, tree feller, bucheur, cortador de lena
Skill: rower, rameur
Was this slave good at his/her primary skill?: yes

Personality

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

Importation Information
Language group of Africans: : Mande
Was this slave being emancipated?: no
Slave listed as dead?: no