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Bonne Ridge Plantation, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana

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Date: After 1840 to about 1853
Location: Catahoula, Louisiana, United Statesmap
Surnames/tags: Sharpe Slavery Black_Heritage
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History

Absalom Sharpe lived in Adams Co, MS. His home plantation was Cedar Grove Plantation.

Absalom Sharpe also owned a plantation called Bonne Ridge, or The Bon, on the Tensas river in Catahoula Parish Louisiana. Very little is known about this plantation except that Absalom Sharpe did not live there. After his death this plantation and the enslaved on it went to the brothers and sisters of Absalom Sharpe.[1]

For more information on the Bonne Ridge Plantation see:

  • Alexander K. Farrar papers[2]
  • Runaway Slaves[3]

Slaves

When Absalom Sharpe died in 1851 his probate inventory listed the names of the enslaved persons on the Bonne Ridge Plantation.[4]

  1. Washington age 22
  2. Bartlett age 47
  3. Moses age 39
  4. Henry age 27
  5. Allen age 52
  6. Jim age 27
  7. Big Andy age 22
  8. Wyatt age 18
  9. Willis age 26
  10. Queen age 32
  11. Joe age 6, child of Queen
  12. Jane Snow, (no age given)
  13. Eli age 10, child of Jane Snow
  14. Parthena age 5, child of Jane Snow
  15. Sam age 2, child of Jane Snow
  16. Rosa Ann age 39
  17. May age25
  18. Mercia age 47
  19. Caroline age 32
  20. Elisha age 6, child of Caroline
  21. John Morgan age 3, child of Caroline
  22. Amy age 18
  23. Nancy age 21
  24. Mary age 25
  25. Becky age 4, child of Mary
  26. Infant, child of Mary
  27. Riley, orphan boy age 6
  28. Silla age 9
  29. Esther age 4

Census

In 1850 there were 35 enslaved persons enumerated under Absalom Sharpe's name on the slave schedule in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana.[5]

Sources

  1. Death of an Overseer Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South By Michael Wayne, c.2001 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Death_of_an_Overseer/XkIfSKUTMxAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=plantation+Absalom+Sharpe+Catahoula+Parish+Louisiana&pg=PT132&printsec=frontcover
  2. FARRAR (ALEXANDER K.) PAPERS 1804-1931 Mss. 782, 850, 1348 LSU LIBRARIES SPECIAL COLLECTIONS https://www.lib.lsu.edu/sites/default/files/sc/findaid/0782.pdf
  3. Runaway Slaves Rebels on the Plantation By John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger, c.2000 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Runaway_Slaves/3pZgiM6pXosC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Sharp
  4. Deed: "Deed records, 1780-1886; indexes, 1798-1899"
    Catalog: Deed records, 1780-1886; indexes, 1798-1899 Deed records, v. II 1852-1854
    Film number: 008318397 > image 299 of 363
    FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSR1-Y9TX-4 (accessed 11 June 2022)
    • 1853 Deed Bk II p.550
  5. United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 : "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850"
    Image path: United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 > Louisiana > Catahoula > Catahoula parish > image 14 of 44; Citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
    FamilySearch Image: S3HY-D1J3-HGG (accessed 11 June 2022)




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