Letter, 1862 April 21

Containers:

Box 1, Folder 1

Scope and content:

Describes formerly enslaved people on St. Simons Island, who form a "self sustaining colony" under the control of Goldsborough.

Goldsborough describes many scenes regarding formerly enslaved people on the island, or "contrabands", and many times refers to specific individuals, although these people are rarely named.

Names a person, Hope, Goldsborough's "head man" of a settlement of formerly enslaved people on the island. Hope may be a formerly enslaved person.

Names Columbus (14), "a bright intelligent mulatto ... son of one of my overseers," whom Goldsborough suggests bringing North to his wife.

Names a formerly enslaved man, Primus (a horse coachman).

Physical location:

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Collection context