Jean Bapitste Darcantel, a free man of color, presents to the parish judge and the police jury that he is the "lawful owner" of a forty-year-old female slave named Rosette Capucin and Rosette's child, a five-year-old boy named Casimir. He further presents that Rosette is his wife and Casimir his son, and that he has purchased both of them for the specific purpose of giving them freedom. He declares that Rosette has always been of good conduct, that she is "sober" and "industrious," and "submissive in her deportment towards white persons." She is, he declares, "free from the crimes and blemishes contemplated by law" in cases of emancipation. He asks the police jury to allow him to grant freedom to Rosette and Casimir, and to authorize the sheriff to make the publications "required by law in such cases."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana
