Manuscript contract, signed, in the hand of William Smith, between Smith and Andrew C. Barnett, for relocation of one hundred sixty enslaved African American plantation workers and farming property owned by Smith from his plantations in Alabama to his...
Description:
William Smith (1762-1840), plantation owner and member of the Alabama House of Representatives, 1836-1840.
Subject (Geographic):
Alabama., Louisiana., Louisiana, and United States
Subject (Name):
Barnett, Andrew C. and Smith, William, 1762-1840.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, Farmers, Slavery, History, Economic conditions, Social life and customs, and Politics and government
Two scenes of mining life. In the top scene, three miners, one of whom may be African-American, sit around a table in a cabin while a fourth miner weighs a small amount of gold. In the bottom scene, miners and their pack animals walk along a hilly tra...
The material consists of nine manuscript documents concerning the trial and conviction of Surry, an African American slave owned by Thomas Montgomery, for the murder of Moses, a slave owned by John Hyatt, in Lincoln County, Kentucky, in 1808. The docu...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Kentucky, Lincoln County., and Lincoln County (Ky.)
Subject (Name):
Montgomery, Thomas, 1779-1828. and Pettus, Thomas.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, Enslaved persons, Trials (Murder), and Witnesses
