Cassova
Gender: female
Race: black
Birthplace: Mina
Age (when this record was documented): 24.0
Other comments: faultless, faithful domestic, "sans defaut Fidele domestique"
Selling Information
Name of the Seller: Louis Lebas de Courmont
Name of the Buyer: Adelaide Olivier (FREE BLACK
Grouping: sold or inventoried in a group
Selling Currency: D
Selling Value: 1430
Selling Value: 1430
Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
Document Date: 1820-12-31
Document Number (from the document): 363
Notary Name: Carlile Pollock
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, laundress, ironer
Skill: cook, cuisinier, cocinero
Skill: laundry, ironing, blanchisseur, repasseur
Was this slave good at his/her primary skill?:
yes
Personality
Character of slave (described by seller or appraiser): fauntless, faithful
Characteristics:
Family Information
Was this slave inventoried with his/her mother?:
no
Was this slave sold with his/her mother?:
no
Number of children: 1
Number of male children: 1
Importation Information
Language group of Africans: : Gbe(Fon/Arada/Aja/Mina)
Was this slave being emancipated?:
no
Slave listed as dead?:
no