Baptiste
Gender: male
Race: black
Birthplace: Kanga
Age (when this record was documented): 19.0
Other comments: seller declares him to be a runaway, "..le venduer a declare etre maroneur"
Selling Information
Name of the Seller: Pierre le Bourgeois
Name of the Buyer: Morand Vilie
Grouping: sold or inventoried as an individual
Selling Currency: p
Selling Value: 380
Selling Value: 380
Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: St. John the Baptist (new German Coast)
Document Date: 1792-04-05
Document Number (from the document): 27
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
Language group of Africans: : Mande
Was this slave being emancipated?:
no
Slave listed as dead?:
no