The Race and Slavery Petitions Project,created by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is a database of information relating to slavery and race abstracted from 18th and early 19th century documents. Details about 150,000 individuals[consisting of slaves, free persons of color and Whites] were gathered from legislative and county court petitions, deeds, wills and other related documents across the American South. Some of these petitions also provide a window into the social life of Women, slaves and free persons of color. These abstracts are a goldmine for genealogists looking to identify slaveholders, spouses, manumissions, landownership and clues to migration of family members. I found a petition involving my ancestor François BIROTTE, free men of color at St. Landry Parish in a messy case against one of the many women he became involved with during his lifetime.
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| François BIROTTE, f.m.o.c. vs. Lise PREVOST, f.w.o.c. in the St. Landry Parish District Court[1825] The Race and Slavery Petitions Project can be found at https://library.uncg.edu/slavery/petitions/ RS |
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