Celestine
Gender: female
Race: grif-usually means mixed black and Indian
Birthplace: Cuba
Age (when this record was documented): 13.0
Selling Information
Last Name of Deceased: Seguin
Estate Number: 03-A-257-006-1817
Name of the Buyer: Francois Borel
Grouping: sold or inventoried as an individual
Selling Currency: P
Selling Value: 805
Selling Value: 805
Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
Document Date: 1817-08-18
Document Number (from the document): 299
Notary Name: Marc Lafitte
Coder (person that encoded this record: Philip McLeod
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: somewhat a seamstress, domestic
Skill: seamstress, costurera, couturière
Skill: domestic, house, domestique, servant, butler, housekeeper, serviente, domestico
Did this slave have a little skill 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
Was this slave being emancipated?:
no
Slave listed as dead?:
no