Marie Jeanne, a free woman of color, presents to the police jury that she purchased her nineteen-year old daughter named Marie Noël, also known as Victorine, from Louis Castein and his wife Catherine Rabassa Castein for the sum of $900 in cash. She explains that the Casteins had "consented to part with Marie Noël but with the certainty that she should before long enjoy all the benefits of freedom." Marie Jeanne therefore wishes to now proceed with the emancipation, as much to fulfill the condition of sale as for the "happiness" of her daughter, who is a cook and a "washer woman" as well as a woman of good character. She asks the police jury to authorize her to fulfill the formalities prescribed by law, "before any Court of Competent Juridiction," to emancipate her daughter [Original in English and French].
Result: Granted.
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Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana
