Cupidon
Gender: male
Race: black
Birthplace: Aja/Fon/Arada
Age (when this record was documented): 35.0
Other comments: Was sold from Martinique in shipment of 21 slaves interrogated on 1765.11.13.01.
Selling Information
Name of the Seller: merchant Freziere
Name of the Buyer: M. Piat
Grouping: sold or inventoried as an individual
Selling Currency: l
Selling Value: 960
Selling Value: 192
Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
Document Date: 1765-12-03
Document Number (from the document): 3
Coder (person that encoded this record: Gwendolyn Hall
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: laborer "laboureur"
Skill: worker in agriculture: laborer, laboureur, trabajador, de habitation, de place, obrero field hand, de campo or champs, soil cultivation, plowman, laboureur, labrador/labradora
Skill: domestic, house, domestique, servant, butler, housekeeper, serviente, domestico
Personality
Family Information
Was this slave inventoried with his/her mother?:
no
Was this slave sold with his/her mother?:
no
Importation Information
Trade place of embarkation: : Martinique
Language group of Africans: : Gbe(Fon/Arada/Aja/Mina)
Was this slave being emancipated?:
no
Slave listed as dead?:
no