Abstract Also known as the James A. Tait Collection. Includes diaries, letters received, financial papers, tax records, and slave records of Charles and James Asbury Tait. Papers of the children of James Asbury include letters received as well as freedman contracts, wills, deeds, clippings, maps, and speeches. The Tait Family were plantation owners in Wilcox County, Alabama; active in politics in Georgia, Alabama, and Texas. Family members include Charles Tait (1768-1835), politician and...

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of one letter written in 1857 by John Wych to Daniel Cole regarding the death of a slave and how it was a major monetary loss for him.