Raba
Gender: male
Race: black
Birthplace: Igbo
Age (when this record was documented): 40.0
Selling Information
Last Name of Deceased: Remy
Estate Number: 08-A-010-023-1809
Name of the Buyer: Vasseur Cantrelle
Grouping: sold or inventoried as an individual
Currency of Inventory: US dollar = 1p
Inventory Value: 450
Selling Currency: D
Selling Value: 310
Selling Value: 310
Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: St. James (including Acadians)
Document Date: 1809-06-29
Document Number (from the document): 257
Notary Name: Michel Cantrelle
Coder (person that encoded this record: Philip McLeod
Date of Inventory: 18090629
Date of Sale: 18090801
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 field worker (de champ)
Skill: worker in agriculture: laborer, laboureur, trabajador, de habitation, de place, obrero field hand, de campo or champs, soil cultivation, plowman, laboureur, labrador/labradora
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: : Kwa
Was this slave being emancipated?:
no
Slave listed as dead?:
no