Celeste, a free woman of color, writes that François Grappe illegally sold her son Louis as a slave to a free woman of color named Amelie. She argues that she and her son are free, and she that, at the time of her birth, her mother had been enjoying “her freedom in good faith more than ten consecutive years in presence” of Grappe. To further support her claim, Celeste informs the court that Grappe “never paid taxes” for her son. Celeste prays for the sale of Louis to be canceled and for the court to recognize that Louis is “free as in fact he is.”
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Natchitoches Parish Courthouse, Natchitoches, Louisiana
