Skip to main content

     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Bill of sale of Jean Baptiste

 Collection — Box: BW 30, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16481

Content Description

This collection contains the 1798 bill of sale for an eight year old Creole boy named Jean Baptiste from Port-au-Prince on the Caribbean island of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti). It was written by the Bordeaux-born merchant Arnaud André Robertjot Lartigue (1740-1826) to a " Monsieur Grandidier". It is a single sheet of paper consisting of eleven lines of french detailing the transaction of enslavement including the name and age of the boy and the price of sale of a hundred livre.

Dates

  • Creation: 1798-03-03

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Biographical / Historical

Arnaud André Robertjot Lartigue (1740-1826) was a prominent planter on Saint-Domingue.Lartigue seems to have moved after the Haitian Revolution to the Danish island of St. Thomas where he served as agent for the French government.

Extent

.03 Cubic Feet (1 letter sized folder )

Language of Materials

French

Condition Description

Fair

Title
Guide to the Bill of sale of Jean Baptiste
Status
Completed
Author
Rose Oliveira
Date
1 April 2021
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
French
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Repository

Contact:
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville Virginia 22904-4110 United States