PHANOR PRUDHOMME PAPERS, #613, 1804-1940
Primarily business papers and volumes of Prudhomme and, later, of J. Alphonse Prudhomme
relating to cotton growing at the family plantation at Ile Breville (later called Bermuda),
Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. The papers include slave lists and items relating to the
buying and selling of slaves (1804-1854); a slave bill of sale from François
Gacion Metoyer, a freedman, to Phanor Prudhomme (1857); notes on
sending slaves to work on town fortifications (1862); and letters
requesting safe passage to move slaves (1865). Plantation records
include a slave work record (1836) and slave lists (1837, 1839-1842, 1856-1863, 1860-1864). The collection also contains
records of accounts with freedmen (1866-1878). Many items in French; microfilm available.