The Langlois family is perhaps best known for not something that they did, but for the actions of a man who had been enslaved by Augustin Langlois. Records of the enslaved in French Louisiana are fragmentary, and we know of this man, a runaway named Guy, through a declaration on January 8, 1737 by Louis Giscard that Augustin, before leaving for Illinois, left him the task of searching for a runaway. Two weeks later, Louis Congo, the Public Executioner, a formerly enslaved man who had been granted his freedom in return for performing this undesirable task, reported that he had been assaulted by 2 men, one of them likely the runaway owned by Langlois, and that they left behind a torn blanket and an old coat. Etienne Langlois, Augustin’s brother, had been Louis Congo’s neighbor on Bayou Rd in the late 1720s; this may be part of how he recognized his one attacker as having been enslaved by Augustin. Etienne himself is recorded as enslaving 7 people in 1727.