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Andrew Baxter Springs letter
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Creator
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Springs, Andrew Baxter, 1819-1886
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Date Created
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1864-12-15
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Subjects--Topical
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Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Enslavers
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Description
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Letter from Andrew Baxter Springs to Confederate Congressman F. B. Sexton. Springs expresses his optimism about the Civil War, with specific references about Union general William T. Sherman and Confederate commander Robert E. Lee. Springs also ex...
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Patterson Family Papers
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Creator
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Patterson, William, 1806-1886
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Date Created
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1826, 1874
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Subjects--Topical
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Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders
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Description
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Papers of the Patterson family of northern Mecklenburg County, mainly concerning their business activities, real estate purchases, wills, and family correspondence. Includes documentation relating to African Americans enslaved by the Patterson fam...
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Patterson Family. Elizabeth Potts. Papers
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Creator
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Potts, Elizabeth, 1798-1860
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Date Created
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1825, 1859
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Subjects--Topical
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Enslavers, Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Farm management, Slave bills of sale, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Wills, Enslavement
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Description
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Document recording the sale of an enslaved African American girl, Cheany (13), from Elizabeth Potts to Edwin Potts for 400 dollars. Also includes three wills written by Elizabeth Potts that detail the disposition of her property and enslaved indiv...
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Patterson Family. William Patterson. Papers
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Creator
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Patterson, William, 1806-1886
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Date Created
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1826-09-09, 1872-04-03
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Subjects--Topical
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Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Farm management, Armies, Swearing, Enslavement
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Description
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Includes a certificate for militia duty, a marriage license (Photostat), correspondence (concerning typhus fever outbreak among enslaved individuals on the plantation), and a legal complaint by William Patterson against Thomas M. Alexander for pro...
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Patterson Family. William Patterson. Receipts
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Creator
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Patterson, William, 1806-1886
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Date Created
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1827, 1868
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Subjects--Topical
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Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Farm management, Home economics, Enslavers
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Description
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Primarily receipts, I.O.U.s, and other financial documents about various purchases including medical services, weaving services, textiles, real estate, newspaper subscriptions, butter, eggs, cotton, school tuition, horses, and other farm animals. ...
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Patterson family. William Patterson. Freedmen and enslaved individuals
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Creator
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Patterson, William, 1806-1886
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Date Created
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1832, 1865
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Subjects--Topical
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Enslavers, Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Farm management, Slave bills of sale, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Enslaved persons--Emancipation, Sharecropping, Enslavement
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Description
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Includes slave bills-of-sale, correspondence regarding formerly enslaved people, correspondence regarding the Freedmen's Bureau, sharecropping terms offered to individuals formerly enslaved by William Patterson, and bartering and wage documentatio...
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Presbyterian Church Papers. Bethel [Presbyterian] Church. Records
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Creator
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Morrison, R. H. (Robert Hall), 1798-1889
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Date Created
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1841, 1874
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Subjects--Topical
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Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Farm management, Presbyterian Church, Church history, Clergy, Enslavers
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Description
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Includes receipts, documents, church histories, and correspondence relating to Bethel Presbyterian Church. Highlights include a letter from A. Springs petitioning to be reinstated as a member of the church, a summary of the pastorate history for B...
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Records of enslaved persons
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Creator
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Torrance, Margaret Allison, 1798-1880
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Date Created
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1799, 1867
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Subjects--Topical
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Enslavers, Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Slave bills of sale, Slave records, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Enslavement
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Description
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Of particular interest is an overseer's contract (1862) of Margaret Allison Torance that outlines daily routines for field hands. Notebooks of James G. Torrance list enslaved persons (1836, 1839, 1840, 1844-47). A postwar contract (6/14/1867) bind...
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Richard Allison Torrance correspondence
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Creator
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Torrance, Richard Allison, 1833-1927
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Date Created
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1861-07-10, 1865-05-03
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Subjects--Topical
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Enslavers, Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Condolence notes, Cotton trade, War, Visiting cards, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Enslavement
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Description
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Reflects viewpoints and lifestyle of a prominent and successful Mecklenburg County planter. Topics includes birth, marriage, illness, death, and similar family concerns; and agriculture. Civil War correspondence reflects North Carolina's involveme...
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Sloan family. Julia Sloan. Letter
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Creator
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DeArmon, Julia Sloan, 1843-1909
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Date Created
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1860-03-18
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Subjects--Topical
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Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Farm management, College students, Women's colleges, Enslavers
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Description
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Letter home from Julia Sloan while at Concord Female College in Statesville, NC. In it she references various family members, describes what her curriculum and work routine is like, and expresses her desire to hear and see her friends and family f...
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Wilkes, John--Records of enslaved persons
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Creator
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Wilkes, John, 1827-1908
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Date Created
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1858-11-13, 1865-01-29
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Subjects--Topical
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Slave bills of sale, Slave trade, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Enslavers, Enslavement
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Description
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Primaily includes bills-of-sale for enslaved individuals bought or sold by John Wilkes. Names of enslaved men, women, and children include Jack, Zeno, Alice, Lucy, Jeff, Antony, Phillis, Alfred, Annis, Leander, Mahalah, Harriet, Henry, Murray, and...