Samba
Gender: male
Race: black
Birthplace: Bamana
Age (when this record was documented): 40.0
Other comments: Buyer is a free mulatto who lives in the "Barrio de Santa Maria." St. Mary neighborhood in New Orleans.
Selling Information
Name of the Seller: Estevan Debon
Name of the Buyer: Pedro, free mulatto Bayhi
Grouping: sold or inventoried as an individual
Selling Currency: p
Selling Value: 720
Selling Value: 720
Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
Document Date: 1801-02-26
Document Number (from the document): 32
Notary Name: Ximenes
Coder (person that encoded this record: Mabel Macias
Date of Sale: 18010226
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: wood cutter,pickaxe "cortador de lena y peochero?"
Skill: woodsman, tree feller, bucheur, cortador de lena
Skill: pick & Shovel (pelle), pioche, azodonero, espiochero
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