Celeste
Gender: female
Race: black
Age (when this record was documented): 35.0
Other comments: runaway when given merchandise & other things to sell,when money was missing from sale she ran away to sell"simarrona porque quando le davan mercancias y otras cosas que vender y que concluida la venta resultava faltarla dinero se hiva simarrona"
Selling Information
Name of the Seller: Claudine Dreux Dufossat
Name of the Buyer: Charles Norwood
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: 1801-02-03
Document Number (from the document): 27
Notary Name: Broutin
Coder (person that encoded this record: Mabel Macias
Date of Sale: 18010203
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: vender
Skill: seller, marchand, vendeur
Personality
Character of slave (described by seller or appraiser): runaway "simarona"
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