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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. 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: 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: Wilkes Family Papers
Creator: Wilkes, John, 1827-1908
Date Created: 1858-11-13, 1865-01-29
Subjects--Topical: Slave bills of sale, Slave trade, Slavery
Description: Papers of a family that settled in Charlotte in the 1850s. Contains extensive records involving the purchase and operations of gold mines, mills, and other businesses owned by the family and by their Renwick and Smedberg relations in North Carolin...

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...