Charles
Gender: male
Race: mulatto rouge
Age (when this record was documented): 0.0
Other comments: Runaway for one month,shot,condemned to hanging,with armed force big enough to protect the execution.Sentenced on 10/6/1808.Executed 10/13/1808. Passed by Bayou St. Jean,followed woods,went to Cantrell's to see his mother. Was there 2 or 3 days.
Selling Information
Name of the Seller: Alexandre (merchant) Chopin (owner)
Grouping: sold or inventoried as an individual
Currency of Inventory: piastre = 1p
Inventory Value: 300
Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: St. Charles (old German Coast)
Document Date: 1808-10-06
Notary Name: 259-275
Coder (person that encoded this record: Gwendolyn Hall
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,incorigible "scelerat"
Characteristics:
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?:
yes
: Slave had actually run away