Michael Plunkett, Editor
University of Virginia Press
© 1995 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia
Conditions of Use
Michael Plunkett, Editor
University of Virginia Press
© 1995 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of
Virginia
Conditions of Use
Leyburn
Library
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450
703-463-8640
Fax: 703-463-8964
e-mail: stanley.v@wlv.edu
Kept by an unidentified planter from Rockbridge County. It contains a
record of days worked by slaves and diary entries referring to the
freeing of slaves.
(Acc. 100)
Contracts for the "hire of Negroes" from Ackerly's estate.
(RHS Misc)
Personal, business, and legal correspondence of this family of
Botetourt and Rockbridge counties. Although the material is primarily
personal, an 1858-59 farm diary kept by William Alexander lists the
slaves and clothing allotted; a March 22, 1844, letter concerns the
hiring of slaves; and a letter from Andrew Alexander to William
Included is his will which disposes of slaves.
(RHS MSS)
Memorabilia mainly relating to the South during the Civil War.
Included are some bills of sales for slaves.
(Acc. 110)
Includes a printed broadside, January 5, 18G3, issued by President
Davis in answer to the Emancipation Proclamation.
(Acc. 011a)
Owned by William Weaver of Botetourt County, the account book
contains materials on slaves, such as entries for January 31, 1855,
concerning the hiring of slaves.
(Acc. 167)
Includes twelve items, 1806-55, concerning the sale and hiring of
slaves and a license to sell slaves.
(Acc. 085)
Signed by Rockbridge County citizens for the release of Jackson, a
free black blacksmith, from service with the Confederate army.
(RHS MSS)
Personal papers including an undated petition to the House of
Delegates advocating gradual abolition of slavery.
(Acc. 006a)
Tax books recording the taxes levied on slaves owned by Rockbridge
County residents.
(Acc. RHS ledgers)
Receipt for the sale of a slave.
(Acc. RHS Misc)
Personal and business papers of this Rockbridge County family,
including three letters, November 7, 9, 17, 1850, from R. W. Bailey
to S. Mcd. Reid concerning Liberian colonization; a May 8, 1851,
letter from a colonist in Liberia; and a May 13, 1850, list of
subscribers for the removal of fifty free blacks to Liberia.
(Acc. 027)
Miscellaneous papers including an 1841 list of slaves exempt from
taxation; an 1844 list of slaves in a district of Rockbridge County;
1862 and 1863 requisitions of slaves by the Confederate States of
America; a January 24, 1863, valuation list of slaves in the county
for use of the CSA; and miscellaneous 1863 certificates of exemptions
of sick slaves.
(Acc. 086)
In the board of trustees records is an 1849-59 folder about the
Colonization Society in Lexington and in the faculty minutes an 1878
entry denying blacks the use of the mess hall.