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...

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Undated account, typewritten, of the personal experiences of Mrs. Henry Lewis Fletcher while resident on an enslaved labor plantation west of Little Rock, Arkansas during the Civil War, and in Little Rock during the years immediately following.

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

Scope and Content Note Correspondence, ledgers, journals, daybooks, receipts, invoices, statements of account, certificates and other records, 1897-1959, created or received by cotton planter Thomas Hottel Gist; by planter, realtor, and merchant John Petty Moore; by attorney Jesse Boomer Daggett; or by attorney Charles Ebenezer Daggett, and pertaining to: various aspects of the operation and management of Gist's plantation in Phillips County (1921-1937) and in Lee County, Arkansas (1937-1959), especially as...

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Chicot County, Arkansas, cotton plantation, founded by Joel Johnson in 1831. Ledger containing individual and commercial account information for those transacting business with Lakeport. The ledger was rebound from its original form, and information laying within the gutter of any individual page break may not be legible. This film is the best copy available.

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Chicot County, Arkansas, enslaved labor plantation that grew cotton, founded by Joel Johnson in 1831. Primarily cotton books, ledgers, and some laid-in correspondence pertaining to the operation of Lakeport Plantation under the direction of Dr. Victor M. Johnson, Joel's grandson. Arranged chronologically within topically labeled folders.

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Record of plantation and commissary accounts maintained by Mabry at Iuka, Mississippi, January 3, 1882 to January 10, 1884, and in Sebastian County, Arkansas, June 1, 1889 to May 5, 1893.

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The collection consists of a copy of a typescript of Nancy Mooney Rector's unpublished 21-page memoir, "The House Built Upon the Sand," recounting her life at the Rector Plantation along the Arkansas River, near Little Rock. Topics include her family; the plantation's overseer, Mr. "Big" Williams, and other workers; agriculture; and the Great Flood of 1927.

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

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Correspondence in the collection concerns family news and enslaved labor plantation matters.

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

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Journals, ledgers, cash books, and other business records pertaining to the S.E. Tucker plantation and mercantile operation at Tucker, Jefferson County, Arkansas.

The collection consists of daily journals, account ledgers, cash books, seed books, cotton books, farm labor time books, and post office records arranged in eleven series.

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The collection consists of ledgers, cash books, seed books, farm labor books, post office records, gin ticket stub booklets, correspondence, and miscellaneous business records arranged in eight series.

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The collection consists of personal and professional correspondence from members of the Wood family as well as records of the family's cotton gin, general store, and plantation records.