Inventory of Enslaved Persons owned by Dorothée Lassize upon her death

ID: 4686 ~ Source: Louisiana, Orleans Parish Estate Files; Author: New Orleans (Louisiana). City Archives; Probate Place: Orleans, Louisiana ~ Date: 1829

This file appears in: Dorothée Lassize's Family Business

This file appears in: Dorothée Lassize's Family Business

Dorothée Lassize's Family Business

By James Wohlgemuth & Kate Mason

Harriet Martineau, Saxe Weimar, and numerous other antebellum writers described New Orleans free women of color as promiscuous, seductive characters who sought partnerships with wealthy white men so…