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
Inventory of Enslaved Persons owned by Dorothée Lassize upon her death
This file appears in: 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 they could live a life of leisure. Indeed,…