Monsieur Decrabo
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This white person has 1 related event in the database, listed at the bottom of this page.
- Identifier
- NJS-PER-05612
- Family Name
- Decrabo
- Sex
- Male
- Biographical Description
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The New Jersey Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery counted the number of households that held people in slavery in Burlington circa 1797 or 1798. The name Decrabo appeared on the list of slaveholders with 1 enslaved female person counted in the household. This person was listed in the "French" column, indicating that this was a Francophone household and likely one of those who came to New Jersey from Saint-Domingue during the Haitian Revolution.
This person is listed as Monsieur Decrabo in the Burlington Township tax ratables for 1797, where the "Slaves" column indicates that he held 5 people in bondage in his household. - Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Francophone
- Places
- Burlington
- References
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Burlington County, Burlington Township, Tax Ratables Book 178 (1797), New Jersey General Assembly Tax Ratables (Duplicates), 1768-1854 (SAS00001), New Jersey State Archives, Trenton, NJ, https://nj.gov/state/darm/WebCatalogPDF/SAS00001_Tax_Ratables/Book178_BurlingtonBurlingtonTownshipJuneAugust1797.pdf. See record for Monsieur Decrabo under D.
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
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