Bambara
Gender: male
Race: black
Birthplace: Bamana
Age (when this record was documented): 70.0
Selling Information
Name of the Seller: Jean Baptiste Riviere
Name of the Buyer: Fontenot
Grouping: sold or inventoried in a group
Selling Currency: D
Selling Value: 250
Selling Value: 250
Document: Information of the document that these records were retrieved.
Document Location: St. Landry (Opelousas Post). [Calcasieu 1840, Cameron 1870, Acadia 1886, Evangeline 1908, Allen 1910, Jefferson Davis 1912, beaureguard 1912]
Document Date: 1819-01-19
Document Number (from the document): 2559
Notary Name: Notarial Acts Reel 4
Coder (person that encoded this record: Philip McLeod
Type of document:
Any documents involving maroons, including reports of runaways, interrogation of caputred runaways,
and testimony by slaves about runaways:
no
Language: English
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
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: : Mande
Was this slave being emancipated?:
no
Slave listed as dead?:
no