Race and Slavery Petitions Project

Details for
Carmélite in Petition 20885148

Name:Carmélite
Petition:20885148 filed in Louisiana, 1851
Role in Petition:petitioner
Color and Gender:black female
Status:slave
Identified Immediate Family:
Economic Profile:HIRING - 1851 - petition
HIRING - 1851 - petition
HIRING - 1851 - petition
SALE - 1844 - petition
Age: 
Birth:
Death:
Owned slaves?:
Occupation:
Skills:hairdresser; trading goods
Diseases:
Physical Attributes:
Moral Attributes:
Plantations
Literate?:
Urban?:
Runaway?:
Punishments Received:
Term Slave:Yes. For 7 years, After 1844.
Freedom:Origins of freedom: freed by owner, a free woman of color named Françoise Eléonore Doubrère.