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What evidence does the author include to support her
claim? Check all that apply.
O Oral tradition suggests she was not unkind.
Coincoin never struck her enslaved workers.
O There was an equal number of male and female
enslaved workers.
As well as buying family members to liberate them,
Coincoin also bought slaves to work the land she owned.
In the 1795 Slave Census she is recorded as owning five
slaves and, by 1816 when she divided her property
amongst her children, she had twelve slaves, six women
and six men. These slaves,Jean Baptiste, Harry,
Marguerite, Marie Jeanne, Constance, Louis, Froisine,
Marianne, Marcellino, Jean Noel, Marie Louise, and
Hilaire-appear in earlier records, so we can trace some
family ties between them. Oral tradition in the Cane
River Creole community has it that Coincoin was a good
owner who never hit her slaves, and although we cannot
be certain of this, the presence of family groups and equal
numbers of men and women suggests that the slave
community at her plantation was settled and stable.
- "Coincoin, Marie-Thérèse,"
Fiona J. L. Handley
The Slave Census shows her enslaved workers
were all well-fed.
There are photographs that show her enslaved
workers were healthy.
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