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Slavery -- Arkansas

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Bragg Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1257
Scope and Content Note The collection contains correspondence, legal documents, genealogical materials, photographs, and other materials relating to the Samuel and Hosea Bragg family. Family correspondence includes letters written during the era of the antebellum South as well as the Civil War. Included in Folder 12 is a list of birth dates, and in some cases death dates, of persons enslaved by Hosea Bragg. Also included is correspondence during the period 1866-1911, as well as letters written during the First...
Dates: circa 1836-1993

Horace J. Ford Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1249
Scope and Content Note

Photocopy of a diary with regular entries describing enslaved labor plantation life, the cotton trade on the Mississippi River, and activities of enslaved persons.

Dates: 1848-1849

Hiring Bond for Jane, an Enslaved Girl

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2639
Content Description

Hiring bond for Jane, an enslaved girl, who was hired from G. W. Benton to J. J. Pratt in Union Springs, Arkansas.

Dates: 1861-1864

Lawrence County (Arkansas Territory) Sheriff Notice of Sale of Enslaved Persons

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1139
Scope and Content Note

Handwritten legal notice, signed by Charles Kelly, calling for a court-ordered sale of enslaved persons owned by James Rupell to take place at Batesville on October 27, 1824. Judgment in favor of the estate of Patrick McMannis, deceased. Enslaved persons in the sale were Moses, an approximately 40-year-old man, Lew, an approximately 40-year-old woman, and Mel, an approximately 22-year-old man.

Dates: 1824

Pleasant M. Osburn Bill of Sale

 Collection
Identifier: MC 677
Scope and Content Note

Contract by Pleasant M. Osburn for the sale of land and six enslaved people, four of whom were children, Patsy age 35, Lucy age 10, Margaret age 8, Erick age 7, Mourning age 25 and Ann age 8 to Wiley Neubury, Clark County, Arkansas, February 12, 1847

Dates: 1847

Ruth Polk Patterson Papers Addendum

 Collection
Identifier: MC 903A
Scope and Content Note

Materials in this collection are various draft manuscripts of Ruth Polk Patterson’s books about her grandfather’s life and work as a slave in Arkansas. Spencer Polk, Patterson’s grandfather, was born to an enslaved woman, Sally, and her enslaver Taylor Polk. Unusually, Spencer and his siblings by Sally were raised along with Taylor Polk's white children.

Dates: 1971-1986

Shreve Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 635
Scope and Content Note

The papers consist of three series--correspondence, family papers, and photographs. Papers include genealogical records, Civil War military records, property records (including a tax valuation of enslaved people), farm produce notebooks, Shreve family photographs and photographs of Washington County subjects.

Dates: 1810-1975

Shugart Plantation Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1075
Scope and Content Note

Enslaved person deeds, cotton accounts, and other records pertaining to the Henry F. Shugart Plantation of Dallas County; 1 reel of microfilm.

Dates: 1833-1911

Rachel Skoney Research Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1239
Scope and Content Note

The Rachel Skoney Research Papers contain computer printouts of statistical data Skoney generated while she was preparing her master's thesis, "Large Planters and Planter Persistence in Antebellum Arkansas, 1850-1860". Some files contain Skoney's descriptions of the programs used to analyze the data.

Dates: 1986-1991

Trulock Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1965
Scope and Content Note

Materials in this collection includes biographical material, correspondence, financial materials, photographs, and deeds.

Dates: 1821-1987

Washington County Court Probate Record Book

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2018
Scope and Contents Probate record book of the Washington County Court, including wills, appointments of estate executors, and other probate records from 1829-1839. Individuals with records contained in the book include Martha Wilson, Rial Potter, Robert Hamilton, Thomas Garvin, John L. Taylor, Benjamin Hayles, James Lawrence, Ralph Davis, John Wilson, Thomas Wagnor, Alexander Williams, William Wolf, Evan Harrah, Isham Wood, James Simpson, William A. Wilson, David Dunkin, John Jordan, Ransom Lane, Alexander W....
Dates: 1829-1839