MSS16481Bill of sale of Jean BaptisteGuide to the Bill of sale of Jean Baptiste MSS.16481Rose OliveiraAlbert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

1 April 2021

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections LibraryP.O. Box 400110University of VirginiaCharlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110URL:

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-03-05 17:54:39 +0000.Description is written in: French, Latin script.Describing Archives: A Content Standard Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Bill of sale of Jean Baptiste Lartigue, Arnaud André Robertjot de , 1740-1826 MSS.16481 Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key /repositories/3/resources/976 .03 Cubic Feet 1 letter sized folder 1798-03-03 Fair French BW 30 1 Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Biographical / Historical

Arnaud André Robertjot Lartigue (1740-1826) was a prominent planter on Saint-Domingue.Lartigue seems to have moved after the Haitian Revolution to the Danish island of St. Thomas where he served as agent for the French government.

Preferred Citation

MSS 16481, Bill of Sale of Jean Baptiste, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Content Description

This collection contains the 1798 bill of sale for an eight year old Creole boy named Jean Baptiste from Port-au-Prince on the Caribbean island of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti). It was written by the Bordeaux-born merchant Arnaud André Robertjot Lartigue (1740-1826) to a " Monsieur Grandidier". It is a single sheet of paper consisting of eleven lines of french detailing the transaction of enslavement including the name and age of the boy and the price of sale of a hundred livre.

enslavement enslaved persons Haiti -- History -- Revolution -- 1791-1804 Haiti Baptiste, Jean