Michael Plunkett, Editor
University of Virginia Press
© 1995 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia
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Michael Plunkett, Editor
University of Virginia Press
© 1995 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia
Conditions of Use
Virginia
Historical Society
428 North Boulevard
Richmond, VA 23220
804-358-4901
Fax: 804-355-2399
Kept in Mecklenburg County by Alexander while he served as the
administrator of the estate of John Goode. Included are comments on
slaves and slavery.
(Mss5:1AL275:1)
Consists mainly of business and legal papers of Robert Henderson
Allen, commissioner of accounts and justice of the peace from Oral
Oaks, Lunenburg County. Included is material on his work as an agent
for the Freedmen's Bureau.
(MsslAL546a)
Business, legal, and personal correspondence and accounts of John
Driver Allmand and family of Baltimore, New York City, and Norfolk.
Included is an 1825 deed of manumission.
(MsslAL566a)
A receipt to Thomas March in Boston, Massachusetts, for the sale of a
slave.
(Mss2AL59Sa)
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of John
Ambler of Richmond. The personal correspondence has frequent
references to individual slaves and the subject of slavery, such as a
December 19, 1808, letter from Samuel Coleman to John Ambler asking
him to muster militia into service to prevent the assembly of slaves
in Richmond.
(MsslAm 167c)
List of slaves removed from Thomas Pretlow of Southampton County and
shipped to Liberia.
(Mss4AM353al)
A minute book and account book of this society devoted to the freeing
and emigration of American slaves to Liberia.
(Mss3AM351a)
Published in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 59
(1957): 72-78. Included are letters written by freedmen in
Liberia.
(Mss2AN263b)
Business, personal, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Amelia County. Included is a list of slaves belonging to
Jane Segar Archer.
(MsslAR247a)
Personal, legal, and religious correspondence and documents of this
Methodist Episcopal minister. An 1852-61 execution book of the
justice of the peace of Elizabeth City County concerns, in part (2 of
16 cases), the trial of slaves for criminal offenses.
(MsslAR552a)
Legal documents of this King George County resident which include
deeds for slaves.
(Mss2AR646b)
Personal, business, and legal correspondence, speeches, and accounts
of this family of Montville, King William County. Among the documents
pertaining to slavery are materials on an 1857 lawsuit, Commonwealth
v. Martha (slave), and 1859 bonds concerning the hiring of
slaves.
(MsslAY445a-b, Mss2AY44b)
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
Halifax County family. Included is a list of slaves belonging to
William Bailey.
(MsslB1565a-b)
Mainly legal and business papers of Philip Pendleton Barbour, a
lawyer from Frascati in Orange County. Included are 1806-18 deeds for
slave sales of Thomas Barbour to James and Philip Barbour.
(MsstB2346a-b)
Bond to pay Mrs. Paulina Legrand for the hire of a slave.
(Mss2B2472)
Business, legal, and medical correspondence and accounts of this
family of Waverley, Mecklenburg County. Included are 1830-52 slave
lists and an 1863 diary which contains a list of slaves.
(MsslB2924a-d)
Business and personal papers of the Bassett family of Eltham, New
Kent County, and of the Lewis family of Hanover County. An 1841- 42
plantation account book includes an 1835 list of slaves.
(MsslB2944a)
A deposition taken in Accomack County concerning a slave, Southy, who
was the property of Levin Joynes.
(Mss2B3433)
Business and personal papers and plantation accounts of Robert Payne
Waring of Edenatta, Essex County, and Richard Baylor of Sandy Point,
Charles City County. Scattered throughout are records on plantation
management.
(MsslB3445eFA2)
Legal and business documents of this family of Stafford County.
Included is a 1722 deed for slaves in Stafford County.
(Mss2B4598c)
Business, personal, and legal correspondence of the various members
of this family of Blandfield, Essex County. An 1852 agreement of
William Bradshaw Beverly and John Nelson concerns slaves in Marengo
County, Alabama.
(Mss5:lB4677:1)
Some of the collected Bible records contain records of family slaves. These are listed in the card catalog under "Bible Records," with subentries of the slave owners' surnames.
Personal, legal, and military correspondence and accounts of this
family of Cawsons and Farmingdell, Prince George County. Included are
1780-1825 letters from and to two slaves, Tom Baker and Charles.
(MsslB6108a)
Business, legal, and personal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Cumberland County. Among the documents are deeds concerning
the purchase of slaves and 1861-62 bonds for the hire of slaves.
(MsslB6304a)
Personal and business papers of this planter family of Centre Hill,
Powhatan County, and Richmond. Included are lists of slaves.
(MsslB6386a)
Slave register of this planter from Bolling Hall, Goochland
County.
(Mss5:5B6387: 1)
Business, legal, and personal correspondence and accounts of Thomas
Tyler Bouldin of Golden Hills, Charlotte County, and Lynchburg.
Included is a March 22, 1850, list of slaves.
(MsslB6638a)
Personal and business correspondence and accounts, primarily of
Benjamin Bowles of Fluvanna County. Included is a photocopy of an
undated letter from a slave or former slave named Gallant.
(Mss2B6818b)
Personal and business papers of this Richmond merchant who was an
official of the American Colonization Society and the Virginia
Colonization Society.
(MsslB7332a)
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Grove Hill, Botetourt County. Included are 1834-38 slave
appraisals and 1834-42 mortgages for slaves in Jefferson County,
Florida.
(MsslB7427a)
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Benvenue and Sunnyside, Nelson County. Included are deeds
of sale for slaves.
(MsslB8305a)
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of various
members of the Bruce family of Staunton Hill, Charlotte County, King
William County, Richmond County, and King George County. Included are
an estate inventory of Charles Bruce of Orange County, an 1835 list
of slaves in Charlotte County, and an 1850-57 list of slaves.
(MsslB8306a-b)
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Lunenburg County. Included are an 1836 deed of John H.
Craddock to John Buford for slaves and an 1816 list of slaves.
(Mss2B8648b)
A commonplace book kept by this woman which includes a list of slaves
owned by Armistead Burwell.
(Mss5:5B9585: 1)
Business, legal, and personal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Frederick (later Clarke) County. Scattered references to
Correspondence of William Byrd Il, published in The Correspondence of
the Three William Byrds of Westover Virginia. 1684-1776, ed. Marion
Tinling, 2 vols. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia,
1977). There is frequent mention of slavery and blacks. For example,
the July 12, 1736, letter of William Byrd II to the earl of Egmont
comments about his fear that the continued importation of African
slaves would eventually lead to a rebellion.
(Mss1B9968b-c)
Commonplace books of this surveyor and politician from Amherst
County. They include a number of references to slavery and individual
slaves, such as a list of slaves and discussion of slavery at Union
Hill, Nelson County.
(Mss5:5C1117: 1-9)
Addressed to Henry Tucker of Philadelphia. Campbell discussed the
conviction and death sentence of a slave in Norfolk.
(Mss2C1522al)
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Ingleside, Charlotte County, and Richmond. Included are a
January 12, 1839, deed for slaves, an 1862-82 account book of Henry
Carrington containing lists of slaves, an account book of Paul
Carrington with lists of slaves, and an 1865 agreement of Clement
Carrington with Aaron Read concerning the hiring of free blacks.
(MsslC2358c,e,g)
Personal, business, legal, and plantation correspondence and accounts
of this family of Edgehill and Mulberry Hill, Charlotte County.
Included is a December 7, 1847, list of slaves at Mulberry Hill.
(Mss1C2358d)
Business, legal, and personal correspondence and accounts of Robert
"King" Carter of Corotoman, Lancaster County. Included are
letterbooks which are indexed and contain much information on
slaves.
(MsslC2468a)
Accounts, correspondence, order books, fee books, and other court
records. Included are lists of free blacks.
(Mss3C3815a-b)
This register of this Richmond school contains entries on the
attendance of Afro-American students.
(Mss4C442al)
Business, personal, legal, and genealogical correspondence and
accounts of this Richmond family. Included are notes about the
division of slaves and material concerning the imprisonment of John
Brown at Harpers Ferry.
(MsslC5217a)
Personal and business correspondence, primarily of John Clarke of
Keswick, Powhatan County. There is correspondence with Frederick
Clarke concerning slaves.
(MsslC5587a)
Personal and plantation papers, primarily of Stephen Cocke of
Woodlawn, Amelia County. Included are lists of slaves.
(Mss1C6458b)
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of these
families of New Kent and Cumberland counties and Richmond. An 1834-36
cookbook of Mary Banister records the births of slaves.
(Mss1C6458dFA2)
Plantation records kept by Samuel P. Collier, John W. Talbot, and,
George W. Taylor, managers of Cocke's plantations in Powhatan County,
Belldale and Bellmead. Included are materials on slaves.
(Mss1C6458c)
An account book kept by this colonial officer in the Upper James
River District. Included in it is a listing of captains, ships, fees,
and cargoes of, in part, slaves.
(Mss4V819a5)
A pass issued to a slave, Bob, to visit King and Queen County.
(Mss4C7609al)
Personal, military, and genealogical correspondence and accounts of
this Winchester lawyer and Confederate soldier. In the correspondence
are agreements made by David Holmes Conrad concerning a slave and
discussion of John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry.
(MsslC7637a-b)
Personal and legal correspondence and documents of this Winchester
lawyer. A brief, undated document concerns the murder trial of a
slave, George.
(MsslC7638a)
Business, personal, and plantation correspondence and accounts of
this family of North Cliff, Culpeper County. Scattered references to
slavery include an 1862 bond for the hire of a slave.
(MsslC7835a)
Business and legal correspondence and accounts of this resident of
Laneville, King and Queen County. Included are 1778 lists of slaves
at Moss Neck, Caroline County, and Richland, King and Queen
County.
(Mss2C8114b)
Business and legal documents of the Corr and related families of King
and Queen County. Included is an 1838 deed for slaves from Anthony
Shackelford to Thomas Corr.
(MsslC8177a)
List of births of slaves. Most of the slaves were interred in Shockoe
Cemetery, Richmond.
(Mss2C8676a 1)
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
resident of Bowman's Folly, Accomack County. In the personal
correspondence are scattered letters with references to individual
slaves.
(MsslC8835a)
Business, legal, and personal correspondence and accounts of
Cunningham and other residents of Richmond and central Virginia. An
estate document of Edward Cunningham concerns the division of
slaves.
(MsslC9175a)
Personal, business, plantation, medical, and legal correspondence and
accounts of this physician and resident of Puccoan, Hanover County,
Richmond, and Piedmont, Albemarle County. There are scattered
references to slaves.
(MsslC9434a & Mss2C9435b)
Business, personal, plantation, and legal correspondence and accounts
of John Custis (1678-1749) of Williamsburg and York County. Included
are slave lists of 1710, 1750, and undated and a 1764 warrant for the
arrest of a runaway slave.
(MsslC9698a)
Document that concerns plantation economy in Hanover County and
contains lists of slaves.
(MssS:SD1124:1)
Business and personal correspondence and accounts mainly of Charles
William Dabney of Aldingham, Hanover County. Included are materials
on the operation of the plantation, such as 1833 and 1855 deeds of
slaves and an 1867 agreement with John Tyler, a freedman, for the
hire of another freedman as a servant.
(Mss1D1124b)
Literary and personal papers of this Afro-American author and
educator from Richmond.
(MsslD2915a)
Letters from Richmond. Among the concerns mentioned is the sale of
slaves in Augusta County.
(Mss2D3253b)
Personal correspondence of this Richmond author while he was serving
as chairman of the West End Concerned Parents and Friends, an
organization concerned about the desegregation of Richmond
schools.
(MsslD6805a)
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Falkland, Prince Edward County. An 1810-65 commonplace book
contains birth and death records of slaves. Also included are lists
of slaves.
(MsslD9295a,c)
Personal correspondence of this Lynchburg family. The papers of
Samuel Henry Early include an 1860 account with D. P. & G. A.
Diuguid of Lynchburg for a coffin and the burial of slaves.
(Mss1EA765b)
Business and personal correspondence and accounts of this Charlotte
County family. Slave records are included in an account book.
(MsslED596a)
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Fotheringay, Montgomery County. Included are 1813-39 bills
of sale for slaves.
(MsslED598a)
Personal and business correspondence of this family of Prince Edward
i County. Included is a list of slaves of Thomas Walton.
(Mss1EG396b)
Business, personal, and plantation correspondence and accounts of
this family of Appomattox Manor, Hopewell. Included are an 1851-68
account book which contains lists of slaves; an 1821 will of Patty
Cocke, a slave; and a letter concerning the escape of slaves.
(MsslEP734a-d)
Correspondence of this Farmville native. An 1865 petition from Evans
to the Confederate States Department of Engineers seeks pay for a
conscripted slave who died while working on fortifications around
Richmond.
(Mss2EV156b)
Bound volume that lists names, ages, heights, complexions, and
cirCumstance of freedom of free blacks.
(Mss4F2742a2)
Incomplete minute book of this black church of Richmond.
(Mss5:8BX6440F5915: 1)
Business and legal correspondence and accounts of this Blackstone
merchant. Included are 1859-65 lists of slaves of John
Fitzgerald.
(MsslF5764a-b)
Business, personal, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
Greene County lumberman. A number of documents concern the hire of
slaves.
(MsslF6353a-f)
List of births of slaves, location not identified.
(Mss2F6862al)
Legal, business, and personal correspondence and accounts of this
Business and plantation accounts of this family of White Hill, Prince
George County. An 1839-69 account book and the diaries of Charles
Friend both contain lists of slaves.
(MsslF9156a)
Business and legal correspondence and accounts of this Richmond
lawyer. Included are deeds for slaves.
(Mss2F9599b)
Business and personal papers of this Richmond postmaster, much of it
relating to the Republican party.
(MsslG4215a)
An order to the county sheriff to apprehend an escaped slave.
(Mss4Gsl84)
Personal and business correspondence and accounts of this family of
Airfield, Henrico County, and Richmond. Included are 1839-52 lists of
slaves.
(MsslG5906a)
Included in this Cumberland County and Roanoke County document is a
register of slaves for 1809-56.
(MssS:SG6225:1)
Business and personal correspondence and accounts of this family of
Lexington, Fairfax County. Included is an 1814 affidavit for the hire
of a slave.
(MsslG7605a)
Personal and legal correspondence and accounts of this lawyer of
Culpeper County. An 1839 affidavit concerns the death of slave, and
an 1840 affidavit concerns the age of a free black indentured to John
D. Browning.
(Mss l G8274a)
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Hickory Hill, Rockbridge County. Included is an undated
list of slaves.
(MsslG8785a)
Personal, business, legal, and plantation correspondence and accounts
of this resident of Edgehill, Charlotte County, and Norfolk. Included
are an 1829 deed for a slave and 1824 lists of slaves.
(Mss1G8782b)
Personal, legal, and plantation correspondence and accounts of this
family of Brampton, Madison County, Fredericksburg, and Richmond.
Included are 1845-65 lists of slaves belonging to John Randolph
Bryan, a document for the hire of a slave, and correspondence with
Andrew Glassel Grinnan concerning life insurance on slaves.
(MsslG8855a)
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Selma, Orange County. Included is an 1816 deed for
slaves.
(MsslG9297a)
Business, personal, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Gravel Hill, Charlotte County. Plantation records concern
slaves and the hiring of free blacks, and an 1800-1851 commonplace
book contains information on the births of slaves.
(MsslH1956a)
Tax book of the county assessor. Included are personal accounts of
George Clough with entries in 1859 for slaves' corn.
(Mss4H1973a2)
An account book concerning the operation of a blacksmith shop in
Nottoway County. Included are 1825-30 accounts with slaves.
(Mss5:3H2164: 1)
A commonplace book kept in Nansemond and Norfolk counties that
contains notations on the births of slaves.
(Mss5:5H2244:1)
Chiefly papers of Bolling Walker Haxall of Gordonsville, Richmond,
and Springfield, Albemarle County. Included is material on plantation
slavery.
(MsslH3203a-c, e)
Personal and plantation correspondence and accounts of this family of
Red Hill and Kenwood, Charlotte County. Included is a letter of a
slave, Caesar, to James Pulliam Marshall, lists of slaves, and an
1857- 81 account book of William Wirt Henry which contains lists of
slaves and notes on the employment of freedmen.
(MsslH3968a)
Personal, business, legal, and plantation correspondence and accounts
of this family of Culpeper County and of Glendalough, Madison County.
Included is an 1831 division of the slaves belonging to the estate of
James Govan.
(MsslH5565aFA2)
Kept at Belle Grove, Frederick County, this commonplace book includes
lists of slaves.
(Mss5:5H6375:1)
Business, plantation, personal, and legal correspondence and accounts
of this family of Prospect Hill, Spotsylvania County. There are many
lists of slaves and deeds transferring them and accounts of medical
treatment of slaves by Dr. Richmond Lewis. Of special interest is a
1799 report concerning the murder of one slave by another.
(MsslH7185a-e)
Farm diary of agricultural operations in Jefferson County. Included
are lists of slaves.
(MsslO:no.219)
Kept at Dennison Junction, Halifax County, this account book includes
an 1841 list of slaves.
(Mss5:3H8925:1)
Business and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of Rose
Hill, Essex County. Included is an 1857 pass for a slave.
(MsslH8928a)
Included in the papers of this Connecticut native who taught school
in Charlotte Court House is an 1839-55 diary which records among
other topics the religious activities of slaves.
(MsslH9262a)
Personal, business, and plantation correspondence and accounts of
this family of Oakland, Chesterfield County, and Petersburg. Some of
the accounts concern the sale of slaves. Also included is an undated
list of slaves.
(MsslJ6398a)
Legal and business correspondence and accounts of this family of
Clarke County. Included is an 1859 bond for a slave.
(Mss1J735b)
Personal, legal, and business correspondence and accounts of this
family of Loudoun County. Included are an 1819 account of William
Mills of Alexandria with the slave Thideas for flour and an 1861-63
list of slaves belonging to Philip De Catesby Jones.
(Mss1J735c)
Nansemond County journal that includes 1813-21 lists of slaves
belonging to Edmund Jordan as well as births of slaves.
(Mss5:5J7664:1)
Personal, business, and plantation correspondence and accounts of
this family of Woodburn, Fauquier County. Included are undated notes
concerning the employment of a slave, George, by the Fauquier White
Sulphur Springs Company, Fauquier County.
(MsslK2694a)
Personal correspondence and accounts of George Washington Parke
Custis, Mary Custis Lee, Robert E. Lee, and other members of the Lee
and Custis families of Arlington, Alexandria, and Lexington. Some of
the personal correspondence concerns individual slaves, such as a
January 21, 1843, letter of Robert E. Lee on the hire of a slave,
Gardner. Intermixed throughout are lists of slaves.
(Mss1L51c, f)
Business and personal correspondence and accounts of this family of
Business and personal correspondence and accounts of this Quaker
family of Apple Pie Ridge, Frederick County. Included are records of
the administration of the estate of Henry Wells, a free black.
(Mss lL9747aFA2)
Personal and legal correspondence and accounts of this Richmond- area
family. Included are 1844-48 bills of sale for slaves and an 1860
agreement for the hire of a slave.
(Mss2M1997b)
Personal correspondence of this family of Southampton County. A
number of the letters for 1864-65 concern slaves.
(MsslM2886a)
Business, legal, and personal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Fauquier County. Included are papers of the Digges family
Personal, political, business, legal, and plantation correspondence
and accounts of this family of Fortsville, Southhampton County, and
Homestead, Greensville County. A 1793-1831 account book contains
lists of slaves; an 1849-53 account book contains entries about the
allocation of slaves to Emily Wingfield; and another document
contains accounts of Lewis Edmunds Mason of Fortsville, Southhampton
County, which enumerate and list slaves.
(Mss1M3816a-c)
Personal and business correspondence and accounts of this family of
Nelson County. Included are lists of slaves of Henry Massie in Bath
and Alleghany counties.
(Mss1M3855c)
Business and professional correspondence and records of this Richmond
attorney and author. Included are records of his service as chairman
of the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government,
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Marlborough, Stafford County. Included are frequent
references to and lists of slaves.
(MsslM5345a)
Among the records of this Prince Edward County physician are
documents on the medical treatment of slaves.
(MsslM5677a)
Personal and military correspondence and accounts of this family of
Linden, Fauquier County, and Richmond. Included is a receipt issued
by Robert Dabney Minor for slaves detailed to work for the Ordnance
Bureau of the Confederate States of America.
(Mss1M6663c)
Business, personal, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
Personal and business correspondence and accounts of this family of
Richmond. Included is an 1855 pass to slaves Richard and Narcissa to
reside in Richmond.
(MsslM9924a)
Mainly personal, business, legal, and military correspondence and
accounts of Jesse Nalle and family members of Culpeper County. A
large part of the collection concerns slaves and slavery, such as
1809- 19 deeds for slaves and 1839-61 letters concerning individual
slaves.
(MsslN1495a)
Personal, business, legal, and political correspondence and accounts
of this family of Red Hill, Powhatan County. There are frequent
references to slavery, such as lists, inventories, and deeds. A 1792-
1859 account book of John White Nash mentions a fee for defending two
slaves accused of poisoning their master.
(MsslN11786a)
Business and personal correspondence and accounts of this family of
Brickland, Lunenburg County. Included are lists of slaves for 1860
and undated.
(MsslN2795a)
Legal and business correspondence and accounts of Thomas Nicholson
and family members of Norfolk and Princess Anne counties. Included
are papers of the Matthias family with registers of slave births,
1759-99.
(MsslN5287a)
Kept at Castle Hill, Cobham, and Turkey Hill, Albemarle County, this
record includes clothing and food accounts for slaves.
(Mss5:5P1432: 1)
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Gordonsdale, Fauquier County. A number of the documents
refer to slavery, including deeds.
(Mss1P4686b)
Many photographs and prints of Afro-Americans and Afro-American
scenes are included in subject files under "Negroes," "Agriculture,"
and "Transportation." Prints and photographs of individual
Afro-Americans are filed under their names, including Arthur Ashe,
Lott Carey, John Jasper, James Hugo Johnson, James Armistead
Lafayette, John Mercer Langston, Maggie Walker, and Booker T.
Washington.
Business, legal, personal, and genealogical correspondence and
accounts of this Richmond family. Included are 1863 lists of slaves
held by Elizabeth Temple of Ampthill, Chesterfield County.
(MsslP5884a)
Personal and business correspondence and accounts of this family of
Essex County. Included are 1860-1922 notes that concern among other
things the labor performed by slaves.
(MsslP6875a)
Business, personal, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
family of King and Queen County. Included is material on the buying
and selling of slaves.
(MsslP7637a)
Business, legal, and personal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Fincastle, Washington, Halifax, and Botetourt counties.
Included are deeds transferring slaves.
(MsslP9267a-e)
Consists mainly of correspondence of party officials. Included is an
October 1897 pamphlet entitled Address to Colored Voters ....
(Mss3R2997a)
Among the topics discussed by this South Isle, Charlotte County,
woman are slavery and freedmen.
(Mss5:1P3652:1)
Registers of prisoners including slaves and free blacks.
(Mss3R4156b)
Memoir of preparation of the case of Davis v. County School Board of
Prince Edward County before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954 concerning
school desegregation.
(Mss5:1 R5453:1)
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Point Lookout, Gloucester County. Included are inventories
and lists of slaves. Of special interest are 1862-63 lists of
fugitive slaves owned by Thomas Coleman Robins.
(MsslR559Sa)
Personal papers of the Marlbourne, Hanover County, agriculturalist
and author, including essays and correspondence about the subject of
slavery.
(Mss1 R8385a)
Personal, legal, and genealogical papers of this Richmond family.
Included are materials on plantation slavery and slavery in Virginia,
such as lists of slaves.
(Mss1R9336:1)
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Bleak Hill, Franklin County. Included are lists of slaves
belonging to Anna Maria and Thomas Lewis Preston and 1817-53 lists of
slaves sold by Samuel and Fleming Saunders.
(MsslSA878a)
Business, personal, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Princess Anne County and Norfolk. Included are 1856- 62
lists of slaves and documents concerning the hire of slaves.
(MsslSH485a)
Personal correspondence of this Confederate soldier from Amherst
County. Included is correspondence with Aunt Peggy, a slave.
(MsslSN215a)
Volume kept by this Amelia County physician that includes entries on
the medical treatment of slaves.
(Mss5:3So875:1-2)
Notes about the case of a female slave tried before the Hustings
Court of Richmond in February and March 1843 for burning a dwelling
occupied by William Rushmer.
(Mss7:3E443SP272:1)
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Cherry Hill, Halifax County. Frequent references to slavery
and slaves include an 1816 notice of slaves for hire, a register of
ages of slaves bought by Melchizedek Spragins, and an 1845 affidavit
concerning the fugitive slave Charles.
(MsslSP716a-b)
Personal and legal correspondence and documents of this free black
from Philadelphia, including his emancipation and a manumission
certificate for Maria Spencer.
(Mss2ST2423b)
Business, legal, military, and personal correspondence and accounts
of Daniel Stickley of Shenandoah County. Included is a November 25,
1844, slave list.
(MsslSTSlSa)
Letter mentioning the use of black troops by the Federal army during
the Civil War.
(Mss2ST714al)
Chiefly legal and business papers of Archibald Stuart of Staunton.
Subjects discussed include land, slaves, and colonization.
(MsslST9102b-e)
Deed of emancipation for slaves.
(Mss2SU162al)
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
Business, personal, and legal papers of this family of Mount Airy,
Richmond County. A large part of the collection concerns the
management of plantations, including significant materials on
overseers and slavery and the movement of slaves from Virginia to
Mississippi.
(Mss1T2118a-e)
Business, personal, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Ampthill, Chesterfield County. Included are an 1865 list of
slaves belonging to Benjamin Temple and an 1831 letter of Charles
Thompson in England to Judith, a slave belonging to George Garrett of
Middlesex County, concerning her daughter, Mary Ann Markham, an
escaped slave.
(Mss1T2478b)
Legal, business, and personal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Berry Hill, Culpeper County. Included are a number of wills
specifying the division of slaves, an undated list of slaves, and
account
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of these
families of Lauderdale County, Shelby County, and Memphis, Tennessee.
Included are estate papers deeding slaves and an 1855 agreement
leasing slaves.
(Mss1T3977b)
List of slaves belonging to Sam[ue]l Gist in Goochland,
Hanover, and Louisa counties.
(Mss2T5757al)
Personal, legal, business, and plantation correspondence and accounts
of this family of Poplar Grove, Mathews County. Included are lists of
slaves and correspondence concerning individual slaves. A 1864-65
diary of Christopher Tompkins concerning operations at the Dover Coal
Mine, Goochland County, contains lists of slaves, and there are
1863-64 letters written to Tompkins from Jack Foster, a slave with
the 36th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Confederate States Army.
(MsslT5996a-d)
Bond to J. M. Burton concerning the employment of a slave as an
ironworker.
(Mss4T7138al)
Business documents of this company including minutes, reports,
stockholder certificates, and account books. Also included is an 1809
list of slaves.
(Mss3UP65a)
An account book which includes 1850-66 accounts of Henry Carrington
of Ingleside, Charlotte County, concerning the hire of slaves.
(Mss5:3V4654: 1)
Personal and business papers of this planter of Forest Hill, Amherst
County. Included are letters from Waller concerning his trip to
Mississippi to sell slaves and the trial of the slave Virginia.
(Mss2W1567b)
An account book kept at Linden, Prince Edward County, which includes
information on the births of slaves.
(Mss5:3W3275:1)
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Linden, Prince Edward County. There is little material on
slavery, but an undated deed concerning a slave is included.
(MsslW3286a-b)
Includes a 1779 inventory of the estate of Landon Carter and an
October 8, 1773, deed to Timothy Younglove for a slave.
(MsslW4597e)
Business and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of
Gravel Hill, Buckingham County. Included are a bond for the hire of a
slave and 1860 accounts concerning slaves.
(Mss1W5207b)
Personal, business, and legal papers of this Richmond family.
Included is a January 1, 1811, deed for two slaves.
(MsslW6767a-b)
Business and plantation correspondence and accounts of this Amelia
County family. Included is an October 7, 1826, affidavit for a
runaway slave.
(MsslW6867a)
Included in this document of this Hanover County planter are accounts
with slaves.
(Mss5:3W73341)
Business and personal papers of this Richmond and New York lawyer.
Included is material on the integration of schools.
(MsslW7544a)
Business, legal, and personal correspondence and accounts of this
family of Mulberry Place and Shepherd's Hill, Caroline County.
A letter to A. B. Bland concerning his dismissal as pastor of the
black church in Burkeville, Nottoway County.
(Mss4Y525al)
Included in this diary of a ship's doctor on the Castilion is
discussion of the American Colonization Society.
(MssS:lY876:1)