Letter, William C. C. Claiborner to Col. Alexander De Clouet, 1814.

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Title

Letter, William C. C. Claiborner to Col. Alexander De Clouet, 1814.

Subject

Louisiana – History – War of 1812; Louisiana - slave insurrections

Description

Letter, William C.C. Claiborne to Col. Alexander De Clouet, instructing him to be alert to “Agents of the Enemy busily engaged in exciting Negroes to insurrection” as British troops approached New Orleans.

Creator

William C. C. Claiborne

Source

French Colonial, Spanish Colonial, and Nineteenth-Century Louisiana Documents Digital Collection, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Publisher

n/a

Date

September 19, 1814

Contributor

Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University

Rights

Digital reproductions of this item from Tulane University's Special Collections Division are made available under an assertion of fair use (17 U.S.C. 107) for noncommercial educational and research purposes only. Copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their beneficiaries, as stipulated by United States copyright law, unless copyright was signed over to Tulane University.

Format

Image/jpeg

Language

English

Type

Text

Identifier

https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane%3A94538

Coverage

1814, Louisiana