Slavery -- United States
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Walter L. Fleming Collection
Collection
Identifier: 0286
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of five items: a photocopy of a newspaper article about Walter L. Fleming being inducted into the Alabama Hall of Fame; an advertisement for the book "The Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment by J.C. Lester and D.L. Wilson With Introduction and Notes by Walter L. Fleming, Ph.D."; a letter from W.L. Fleming to his mother and father describing his boarding arrangements as an Auburn college student, as well as a flood in the library (January 6, 1894); a...
Dates:
1884 - 1957
Tait Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: 0345
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...
Dates:
1798 - 1922
John Wych Letter
Collection
Identifier: 1341
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.
Dates:
May 26, 1857
