Document titled "A Statement of Monies Paid [Enslaved Persons] on Ardoyn Plantation for the Crop of 1863-1864,", listing several score of enslaved persons (first names), when they were employed, how long they were employed, and the monies paid to them. Click the image to view materials.

Typewritten transcript of Barrow's diary. Daily record of the operation of Barrow's Locust Grove (now Highland) Plantation in West Feliciana Parish. Includes detailed information on slavery, cotton, and politics. This transcription differs in many respects from the published version of the diary, "Edwin A. Davis, Plantation Life in the Florida Parishes of Louisiana, 1836-1846, as Reflected in the Diary of Bennet H. Barrow" (New York: Columbia University Press, 1943).

The majority of records are manuscript volumes, in French, and include daily reports of the police jail, and separate registers of enslaved persons entering the jail and employed in public works. Also included here are later records, written in English, of prisoners committed to the Parish Prison (1852-1862) and daily reports from the Parish Prison and House of Detention (1903-1907).

Minute books, expenses, tax assessments and bills, and journals of receipts. Also included are emancipation petition for enslaved people. Some volumes are in French or English. Includes records of the Right Bank of New Orleans, known as modern day Algiers.

Sale of enslaved persons Jethro and Sinah by Alfred Bowren to James Coutts, January 13, 1829. Copy of the act of sale before Greenbury Ridgely Stringer, Notary Public. Click image to view materials.

Four completed taxation forms listing slaves as the taxed property on the reverse. Three of the forms are from the third municipality. Click the image to view materials.

Two permission slips provided to enslaved persons, Caraline and Joel, giving them permission to travel for one month. Click image to view materials.