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Native Slave Trade Into New Orleans

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Slave from records of Buys/Sell on notarized public record. This is a hard and painful topic. We are trying to find atDna relatives from Mantaneo area natives of Brazil.

Slavers in business, some were married to or were Free People of Color -*

Simon Farve, Translator for Spain Simon Favre, Royal Translator for Spain & France on record in buys and sells with his partner in business and in his NOLA estate, Ms. Austin; * 
  • SC Gov Patrick Moore;
  • Glover Family of British Colonial Gubinatorial family
  • Lotoya Island Family aka Lott

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Maranhão Inventories Slave Database (MISD) Principal Investigator: Walter Hawthorne

Summary: Information about the lives of about 8,500 slaves in Maranhāo from the mid-eighteenth century through the early nineteenth century. Data was derived from inventories of slaveholders’ possessions that can be found in un-catalogued boxes in the Arquivo Judiciário do Estado do Maranhāo in São Luis, Brazil.

Geographic Coverage: Maranhāo (north-eastern state of Brazil)

Time Period: 1767-1831

Number of records (individual slaves): 8,188

Number of variables: 20

Source: Arquivo Judiciário do Estado do Maranhāo in São Luis, Brazil

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