Maria Luisa

Gender: female
Race: black
Age (when this record was documented): 32.0
Other comments: Slave is missing.If she does not reappear the buyer can resell her back to the Seller.If she appears the buyer assumes full responsibility for her expenses

Selling Information
Name of the Seller: Antonio Gras
Name of the Buyer: Joseph Reynes
Grouping: sold or inventoried as an individual
Selling Currency: f
Selling Value: 550
Selling Value: 963

Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
Document Date: 1797-10-12
Document Number (from the document): 593
Notary Name: Pedesclaux
Coder (person that encoded this record: Mabel Macias
Date of Sale: 17971012
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
Skills and Occupations: laundress, ironer, cook, seamstress
Skill: laundry, ironing, blanchisseur, repasseur
Skill: cook, cuisinier, cocinero
Skill: worker in agriculture: laborer, laboureur, trabajador, de habitation, de place, obrero field hand, de campo or champs, soil cultivation, plowman, laboureur, labrador/labradora

Personality
Character of slave (described by seller or appraiser): runaway "simarrona"
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