1803 | captain of La Flora requests permission to disembark in Louisiana to sell enslaved people | SPANISH

This is a petition by the captain of the Spanish schooner “La Flora”, Renato Arnaud, to sell seven enslaved people in New Orleans: three men, three women, and one two-year-old child. The WPA abstract (from the 1930s) included in this record describes these enslaved people as “bush negroes” or “wild negroes.” It also relates that Arnaud told the notary he was unable to sell the seven enslaved people in Cuba as intended, because he was “compelled by the government of Jamaica to bring on board several French prisoners.” Your transcription and translation of this record will help us know more about the people who travelled across Cuba, Jamaica, and Louisiana (and possibly beyond) on La Flora. Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Database from the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship here https://slavevoyages.org/american/database lists several voyages of Intra-American slave trade in which a vessel called “Flora” passed through Havana, but none of these entries mention a captain named Arnaud.