An 1854 Opelousas Courier notice printed in French and English calls the same men runaways and negres marrons. A four-step method for reading runaway notices as genealogical evidence.
Louisiana Genealogy
Marguerite and the Margarita Case: A Legal History of One Woman’s Fight for Her Children in Colonial Louisiana, 1764–1808
Marguerite was born in Africa, transported to colonial Louisiana, given a fraudulent emancipation, and re-enslaved. In 1782 she filed her own lawsuit. She won the freedom of four children. This is her documented record.