Manette
Gender: female
Race: black
Age (when this record was documented): 35.0
Other comments: 1000 piastres, the three of them "pour memoire." Promised their freedom verbally by the deceased. They are all at Terre aux Boeufs.
Selling Information
Last Name of Deceased: Gentilly fwc
Estate Number: 03-A-374-006-1820
Grouping: sold or inventoried in a group
Currency of Inventory: US dollar = 1p
Inventory Value: 1000
Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
Document Date: 1820-05-25
Document Number (from the document): 0
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?:
yes
Skill and Trade Information
Skills and Occupations: somewhat a cook, laundress
Skill: cook, cuisinier, cocinero
Skill: laundry, ironing, blanchisseur, repasseur
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
Number of children: 2
Number of male children: 2
Number of children under 5 years of age: 1
Importation Information
Was this slave being emancipated?:
no
Slave listed as dead?:
no