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Freeman was reported to be dishonest and cruel. He sold children away from their mothers and falsified ages of slaves to make them appear younger. The most famous slave to pass through his yard was Solomon Northrup, who gained his freedom after 12 years in the cotton and sugar cane fields of this region and lived to write his memoir "Twelve Years A Slave" It is now a popular text for school children.
Freeman eventually went bankrupt and was accused of hiding his slaves (his primary asset) on plantations in this area and in Carroll and Madison parishes also located on the river to the North of Moro. Louisiana court records show various cases of banks suing Freeman. Even his mulatto mistress Sarah Conner sued him for her freedom in the First District Court of New Orleans on May 13, 1846. She won.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Freeman disappeared from all records in New Orleans. Moro Plantation has survived to the present day as the same tract of land described in the land grant to Theophilus Freeman. The property passed on to others by the name of Murchison and McNeil and Buck. It was sold at one point in its history for back taxes and on another date it was auctioned on Rampart Street in New Orleans for reason of bankruptcy. The James family has owned it longer than any other in its history.
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