Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Enslaved People Sold at Sheriff's Sale in East Feliciana Parish 1856

Source
The Feliciana Democrat (Clinton, Louisiana)
April 19, 1856
The State of Louisiana, Parish, of East Feliciana., 7th District Court. No 167. If your ancestors belonged to Aletha Shropshire of East Feliciana. Here is a list of twenty-five people on that was been sold that day;

Negro man Tim, Ben, Frank, Bill, Isaam, Aaron, woman Such, Miranda, girls; Henrietta, Mary, Lucinda, woman Sal, girl Lavilla, little Lucy, woman Emily, little Harriett, boy Edmund, girls Louisa and Fatima, boy Simon, woman Hannah, boy, John, girl Phillis. 

Fatima is a female name given of Arabic origin used throughout the Muslim world. I wonder if this name was passed down through her African ancestors.


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