Argus

Gender: male
Race: black
Age (when this record was documented): 22.0
Other comments: slave had been on seller's plantation in St. Domingue

Selling Information
Name of the Seller: Simon Charles Preval
Name of the Buyer: Charles Maurin
Grouping: sold or inventoried as an individual
Selling Currency: P
Selling Value: 1950
Selling Value: 1950

Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
Document Date: 1818-10-14
Document Number (from the document): 784
Notary Name: M. DeArmas
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: good cook, excellent axeman
Skill: cook, cuisinier, cocinero
Skill: axeman, hache, hachador
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
Was this slave being emancipated?: no
Slave listed as dead?: no