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Bill of sale for Spencer, a 15-year-old enslaved boy, and the current crops of James D. Morrisett of Hempstead County, Arkansas, to Benjamin J. H. Gaines of Washington County, Arkansas. The sale is described as being for the financial benefit of Fanny B. Morrisett.

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Oral history interview of Ida Elizabeth Turner Bowman, conducted by her granddaughters. She discusses her family history, including her grandfather owning slaves and a plantation in Alabama, and her father’s experience as a soldier in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. She also discusses her experience growing up in Arkansas and Texas.

The recording includes racial slurs.

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Official account, signed by Bradley County Clerk W. H. Wheeler, listing the names of eleven enslaved persons belonging to the estate of James. T. Bragg, the names of the enslavers purchasing, and the price paid. Enslaved persons included in this bill were Marion, Solomon, Jerry, Sterling, Anniea, who was mentioned as being accompanied by an unnamed child, Evilia, Linnifer, Sally, and Marzu, who was also mentioned as being accompanied by an unnamed child.

Scope and Content Note The Carrigan Family Papers consists of correspondence, diaries, account books, photographs, and other papers of the family and relations of Alfred Holt Carrigan and Mary Elizabeth Moore Carrigan. It also includes genealogical materials pertaining to the families of Alfred Holt Carrigan’s parents, the Carrigans and the Holts, as well as similar materials pertaining to the families of Mary Elizabeth Moore Carrigan’s parents, the Moores and the Bethells. The collection includes antebellum...

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Bill of sale for a 23-year-old enslaved man, Abraham, from Isaac S. Dial of Kaufman County, Texas to Hugh Dial, also of Kaufman.

Scope and Content Note The material consists primarily of letters to and from members of the Badgett family in Caswell County, North Carolina, and in Jefferson, Texas. The letters pertain to human trafficking of enslaved persons, farming, impressions and observations of Thomas J. Badgett while he was a student at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and at the University of Pennsylvania (events include the execution of John Brown), the Civil War, and conditions and events in Texas following the Civil War. Other papers...

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Jordon prepared the research paper, titled "The Collection of Ex-Slave Narratives in Little Rock by the Federal Writer's Project," for the F. Hampton Roy History Award competition sponsored by the Pulaski County (Arkansas) Historical Society.

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Bills of sale and other documents pertaining to the sale, purchase, and manumission of enslaved persons in Fort Smith and Van Buren, Arkansas and in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Texas.