Augustin
Gender: male
Race: mulatto
Age (when this record was documented): 16.0
Other comments: runaway who from this day becomes at risk of the acquirers who agree although he is absent at this time, "maron... qui de ce jour devient aux risques de mon dits Sieur acquereur qui consent quoigue absent de l'avoir recu"
Selling Information
Name of the Seller: Louis Veillon
Name of the Buyer: Jean Decuir
Grouping: sold or inventoried as an individual
Selling Currency: p
Selling Value: 750
Selling Value: 750
Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: St. Martin (Attakapas Post). [St. Mary 1811,Lafayette 1823, Vermillion 1844, Iberia 1868]
Document Date: 1788-09-05
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:
yes
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
Personality
Character of slave (described by seller or appraiser): runaway
Characteristics:
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