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The Locust Grove Plantation Ledger contains the names, marriages, births, and deaths of enslaved peoples on a plantation which internal evidence suggests was Locust Grove Plantation in Jefferson County, Mississippi. Ledger also contains cotton…

Receipt for payment received by James T. Magbee for services rendered by a Negro woman named Nancy.

A receipt for the sale of a slave by the name of Hinson, purchased by W.H. Mein from Jas E. Allen for the sum of 2,750 dollars.

Handwritten, 1-page account of the sale of an “infant negro”, mounted into a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and handwritten entries dealing primarily with the issue of slavery, dated to approximately 1817-1848.

A Bill of Sale for two female servants (Mary & Charity) sold for $960.00 by Daniel P. Bestor of Sumterville, Alabama, to Col. I. C. Brown on January 9, 1853.

Book. Pagination: viii, 338 p., port. ; 21 cm. Digitized as a part of the Association of Southeast Research Libraries (ASERL) cooperative digitization project "Civil War in the American South."

In this letter, Mary Tunstall writes from Danville, Va., to her husband, William P. Tunstall in Richmond, Va., acknowledging receipt of a female enslaved child, who apparently Mr. Tunstall sent his wife as a gift.

Acrostic poems to Mary McClean and Sophia Alexander (ca. 1854) by George Moses Horton, slave-poet of Chatham County, N.C. These were commissioned by Torrance while a student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Handwritten text by…

North Carolina Mutual Insurance Policy for a premium of $2300 in 1849. North Carolina Mutual Insurance based in Raleigh, North Carolina issued various policies for property including enslaved people. Per the donor, this policy may have been one for…

Photograph of Sarah Gudger taken between 1936 and 1938 on the occasion of her interview for the WPA Slave Narrative Project.