Bill of sale of Jean Baptiste

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

This collection is open for research.

Preferred citation:

MSS 16481, Bill of Sale of Jean Baptiste, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Summary

Extent:
.03 Cubic Feet 1 letter sized folder
Creator:
Lartigue, Arnaud André Robertjot de , 1740-1826
Language:
French
Preferred citation:

MSS 16481, Bill of Sale of Jean Baptiste, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

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.

Physical description:
Fair
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard