In New Orleans on 1807 February 23, C.B. Dufau, agent for A. Bonnamy, sold to Arnaud Beauvais, resident of Point Coupée, for 550 piastres in cash, an untrained black male (un negre Brut) age about eighteen, of the "Maninga" [i.e., Mandingo] nation. The slave had arrived from Charleston on the ship La Caroline and after Beauvais had examined and accepted the man, the sale was without any further guarantee. On March 16, Arnaud Beauvais resold the slave to Jean Baptiste Beauvais for the same price and on the same conditions.
