Ambroise
Gender: male
Race: black
Birthplace: Louisiana Creole
Age (when this record was documented): 24.0
Other comments: runaway, at this moment with iron collar and chain as punishment of his vice, "et marronneur etant en ce moment avec le colier et le boulet pour chatiment de son vice"
Selling Information
Last Name of Deceased: Castillion/DelaRonde
Estate Number: 03-A-025-097-1809
Grouping: sold or inventoried as an individual
Currency of Inventory: piastre = 1p
Inventory Value: 500
Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
Document Date: 1809-08-31
Document Number (from the document): 0
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
Skills and Occupations: good pickaxe and shovel
Skill: pick & Shovel (pelle), pioche, azodonero, espiochero
Was this slave good at his/her primary skill?:
yes
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
Was this slave being emancipated?:
no
Slave listed as dead?:
no