Joe Wilkes
Gender: male
Race: black
Age (when this record was documented): 28.0
Other comments: Botlair,(Richard Butler&Samuel McCutchion)Joe Wilkes shot by militia on owner's estate, lost use of right arm,details from compensation list.4 slaves,2 named,1 killed in battle,1 executed,1 in prison en ville,1 missing after revolt.Listed on census of sl
Selling Information
Name of the Seller: Botlair & Macoquion
Grouping: sold or inventoried as an individual
Currency of Inventory: US dollar = 1p
Inventory Value: 800
Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: St. Charles (old German Coast)
Document Date: 1811-01-18
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:
no
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 sugar worker, excellent fieldhand
Skill: sugar worker, both field & mill, sucrier
Skill: worker in agriculture: laborer, laboureur, trabajador, de habitation, de place, obrero field hand, de campo or champs, soil cultivation, plowman, laboureur, labrador/labradora
Skill: various skills
Was this slave good at his/her primary skill?:
yes
Personality
Character of slave (described by seller or appraiser): well behaved "bien portant"
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