Sellah
Gender: female
Race: black
Age (when this record was documented): 25.0
Other comments: described as a tall well cooking woman dark complexion
Selling Information
Name of the Buyer: Antoine Lacour
Grouping: sold or inventoried in a group
Selling Currency: D
Selling Value: 2700
Selling Value: 2700
Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: West Baton Rouge
Document Date: 1819-01-28
Document Number (from the document): 252
Notary Name: Conveyance Book E
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: English
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: cooking woman
Skill: cook, cuisinier, cocinero
Personality
Character of slave (described by seller or appraiser): "well meaning"
Characteristics:
Family Information
Was this slave inventoried with his/her mother?:
no
Was this slave sold with his/her mother?:
no
Number of children: 2
Number of male children: 2
Number of children under 5 years of age: 1
Name of the mate: Phil
Age of the mate: 30
Mate's Race: : black
Importation Information
Was this slave being emancipated?:
no
Slave listed as dead?:
no