Suzana
Gender: female
Race: black
Birthplace: Louisiana Creole
Age (when this record was documented): 24.0
Other comments: This slave is a fugitive and chronic runaway, "simarona," the seller doesn't know where she is and is not responsible for her capture. Buyer assumes all responsibilty in case she is dead or doesn't return, Bore' obtain this slave from Vve. Villere.
Selling Information
Name of the Seller: Juan Etienne Bore'
Name of the Buyer: Luis Laloir
Grouping: sold or inventoried in a group
Selling Currency: f
Selling Value: 440
Selling Value: 770
Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
Document Date: 1775-03-07
Document Number (from the document): 72
Notary Name: Garic, Juan Bta
Date of Sale: 17750307
Type of document:
Any documents involving maroons, including reports of runaways, interrogation of caputred runaways,
and testimony by slaves about runaways:
yes
Language: Spanish
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
Personality
Character of slave (described by seller or appraiser): runaway "cimarrona"
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
Number of children under 5 years of age: 1
Importation Information
Was this slave being emancipated?:
no
Slave listed as dead?:
no