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Title: Andrew Baxter Springs letter
Creator: Springs, Andrew Baxter, 1819-1886
Date Created: 1864-12-15
Subjects--Topical: Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Enslavers
Description: 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...

Title: Patterson Family Papers
Creator: Patterson, William, 1806-1886
Date Created: 1826, 1874
Subjects--Topical: Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders
Description: 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...

Title: Patterson Family. Elizabeth Potts. Papers
Creator: Potts, Elizabeth, 1798-1860
Date Created: 1825, 1859
Subjects--Topical: Enslavers, Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Farm management, Slave bills of sale, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Wills, Enslavement
Description: 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...

Title: Patterson Family. William Patterson. Papers
Creator: Patterson, William, 1806-1886
Date Created: 1826-09-09, 1872-04-03
Subjects--Topical: Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Farm management, Armies, Swearing, Enslavement
Description: 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...

Title: Patterson Family. William Patterson. Receipts
Creator: Patterson, William, 1806-1886
Date Created: 1827, 1868
Subjects--Topical: Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Farm management, Home economics, Enslavers
Description: 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. ...

Title: Patterson family. Margaret Lamira Houston Patterson. Correspondence
Creator: Patterson, Margaret Houston, 1768-1839
Date Created: 1851, 1901
Subjects--Topical: Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Farm management, Valentine's Day, Enslavers
Description: Includes a Valentine's Day poem and party invitation to Margaret Lamira Houston Patterson, and correspondence from Laura Glover to Margaret Lamira Houston Patterson.

Title: Patterson family. William Patterson. Freedmen and enslaved individuals
Creator: Patterson, William, 1806-1886
Date Created: 1832, 1865
Subjects--Topical: Enslavers, Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Farm management, Slave bills of sale, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Enslaved persons--Emancipation, Sharecropping, Enslavement
Description: 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...

Title: Presbyterian Church Papers. Bethel [Presbyterian] Church. Records
Creator: Morrison, R. H. (Robert Hall), 1798-1889
Date Created: 1841, 1874
Subjects--Topical: Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Farm management, Presbyterian Church, Church history, Clergy, Enslavers
Description: 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...

Title: Records of enslaved persons
Creator: Torrance, Margaret Allison, 1798-1880
Date Created: 1799, 1867
Subjects--Topical: Enslavers, Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Slave bills of sale, Slave records, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Enslavement
Description: 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...

Title: Richard Allison Torrance correspondence
Creator: Torrance, Richard Allison, 1833-1927
Date Created: 1861-07-10, 1865-05-03
Subjects--Topical: Enslavers, Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Condolence notes, Cotton trade, War, Visiting cards, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Enslavement
Description: 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...

Title: Sloan family. Julia Sloan. Letter
Creator: DeArmon, Julia Sloan, 1843-1909
Date Created: 1860-03-18
Subjects--Topical: Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Farm management, College students, Women's colleges, Enslavers
Description: 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...

Title: Wilkes, John--Records of enslaved persons
Creator: Wilkes, John, 1827-1908
Date Created: 1858-11-13, 1865-01-29
Subjects--Topical: Slave bills of sale, Slave trade, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Enslavers, Enslavement
Description: 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...