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Published correspondence between the Hon. F. H. Elmore, one of the South Carolina delegation in Congress, and James G. Birney, one of the secretaries of the American Anti-slavery Society.

Scope and Content Note Account ledger kept by James B. Currie, Woodruff County, Arkansas, recording merchandise transactions, sales receipts and a tally of cotton picked by presumabley enslaved people. These individuals names include Hanett, Sam, Wilson, Elic, Emily Manda, Crawley, Isaac, Nina, Sarah, Dick, Sal and Edward. Most of the inked entries are dated 1851-1852, with pencil additions made in the later 1860s. One laid in contract fragment appears to be a sharecropper agreement dated 1867. Some of the entries...

Scope and Content Note Bill of sale from William Wynn to Grandison B. Royston for the purchase of land and 50 enslaved people, March 17, 1836, in Lafayette County, Arkansas Territory. The names of those people are Peter Walker, Mary Habscan, George, Eli, Dick, Warran, Peter Turner, Peter Slivers, John, Barber, Ham, Henry Winbush, Robert Peter, Turner Peter, Sweetie, Charles , John Ganyruss, Daniel Little, Isaac, Dick, Selma, James, Micheal, Birryll, Fitt, Gillman, Bate, Davey, Edy, Harris, Peggey, India, Eliza,...

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Records of administration and distribution of estate, Chicot County.

Handwritten record of the administration of the estate of Britten Ward (died intestate April 1840) by Stokely Ward, including the bonding of Stokely Ward, inventory and appraisal of estate, sale of livestock, hiring out of enslaved people, payment of debts, and distribution of the estate among the heirs.