Luis
Gender: male
Race: black
Birthplace: Mina
Age (when this record was documented): 25.0
Other comments: Seller is acting under pwr of atty from Agustin Mezat of Opelusas.Since sellers qualifies simarron with "un poco" the slave probably has run away before but is not currently absent.
Selling Information
Name of the Seller: Joseph Latiolai
Name of the Buyer: Juan Luis Hinard
Grouping: sold or inventoried as an individual
Selling Currency: p
Selling Value: 550
Selling Value: 550
Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
Document Date: 1800-12-17
Document Number (from the document): 522
Notary Name: Ximenes
Coder (person that encoded this record: Mabel Macias
Date of Sale: 18001217
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): a little runaway "simarron"
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: : Gbe(Fon/Arada/Aja/Mina)
Was this slave being emancipated?:
no
Slave listed as dead?:
no