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1 Title:   Agenoria (ship) records  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Agenoria (Brig)  
  Dates:   1797-1798  
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The collection consists of records of the slave ship Agenoria, 1797-1798. The volume records the sale of sixty-seven enslaved people brought from Africa to Savannah, Georgia, and includes the number and gender of enslaved people sold, to whom they were sold, price paid, and the auction of remainder. Additional entries contain itemized accounts of expenses for food, clothing, nursing, and selling the enslaved people.
  
  Identifier:   ms2114  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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2 Title:   Slavery in Georgia collection  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Unknown  
  Dates:   1802-1856  
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The collection consists of materials relating to enslaved people and slavery in Georgia. The materials include estate appraisals for the estate of Brittain Smith (1802) and Valentine Hatcher (1812); an inventory of the estate of Valentine Hatcher (1812); and a property list of the estate of Brittain Smith (1802); a bill from Lusk, Lathrop, and Co. documenting items purchased for slaves' use (1834); and a letter (1856) from Linton Stephens in Sparta (Ga.). The appraisals and property list give the enslaved peoples' name and value. The letter (16 Dec. 1856) lists enslaved people Linton has for sale including their price, name, and age and discusses the health of several slaves.
  
  Identifier:   ms2923  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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3 Title:   Junius Hillyer memoir  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Hillyer, Junius, 1807-1886  
  Dates:   1874-1990  
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The collection consists of the original memoir of Junius Hillyer, dated February 25, 1894. The memoir describes life on the family plantation, slavery, thefamily's move to Athens, Georgia in 1821, Junius' attendance at grammar school, and activities at Franklin College. The collection also includes photocopies of papers concerning a memorial dedication at the site of the Freeman-Hillyer home place in Wilkes County, Georgia; photocopies of family history; and photocopies of letters from William Dickerson Martin and Peter Wellborn Martin.
  
  Identifier:   ms76a  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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4 Title:   Waller and Killion typescripts  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Waller, Charles Thomas  
  Dates:   1971  
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The collection consists of two typescripts titled A Treasury of Georgia Folklore and Interviews with Former Slaves, by Ronald Gene Killion and Charles Thomas Waller, Athens, Georgia, 1971.
  
  Identifier:   ms796  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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5 Title:   Slave narratives from the Federal Writers' Project  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Georgia Writers' Project  
  Dates:   1936-1939  
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The collection consists of interviews organized by Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project, with women and men born into slavery. Transcripts, dated 1936-1939, are in multiple formats, and mostly contain name of person interviewed, date of interview (or date of interview submission), date of birth, and name of research worker, editor or author. Interviews recount experiences of being enslaved, and are full of anecdotes, folklore, and authentic history. The collection also contains information concerning the organization and design of the original interview structure.
  
  Identifier:   ms916  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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6 Title:   Judy Smith Articles of Apprenticeship  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Peterson, J. L.  
  Dates:   1868 September 16  
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The collection consists of one Article of Apprenticeship of the Atlanta Intelligencer Book and Job Office. Dated Georgia, Fulton County, September 16, 1868, J. L. Peterson has applied to have Judy Smith, a 10-year-old orphaned African-American girl "bound and apprenticed." The terms of the apprentiship include that Smith may not leave service or consent to marry until the end of her term at age 18 without permission. Peterson agrees to clothe, feed, and maintain Smith including medical attention, teaching her to read, and teaching her housekeeping and sewing.
  
  Identifier:   ms2484  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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7 Title:   Theodore G. Sledge estate document  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Sledge, Theodore G.  
  Dates:   1864 October  
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The collection consists of documents pertaining to the estate of Theodore G. Sledge. Sledge died leaving behind six enslaved men and women, Maria, Lucinda, Spencer, Hester, Minerva, and Francey, and fifteen hundred and thirty six dollars of Confederate currency. Several family members sought legal action, but the case was dismissed in November 1864.
  
  Identifier:   ms4094  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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8 Title:   Richard M. Johnston legal document  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Johnston, Richard Malcolm, 1822-1898  
  Dates:   1859  
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The collection consists of a legal document transferring property from Richard M. Johnston of Hancock County, Georgia, to Willie Edwards Bonner. Property includes "a negro woman" and her children, piano, spectacles, and other personal items.
  
  Identifier:   ms2391  
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9 Title:   Hugh Lawson family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Brown family  
  Dates:   1801-1974  
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The collection consists of papers of Hugh Lawson and Lawson family descendants from 1801-1974. The papers include correspondence, indentures, and genealogical materials. Materials relating to Hugh Lawson include indentures (1801-1837, with gaps) and correspondence (1837-1895). The correspondence includes letters (1837-1857) from Lawson to his daughters Sarah Penelope and Martha J. while at school in Jeffersonville, Twiggs County, Georgia and later (1847-1857) to Sarah Penelope Oliver after her marriage. The letters discuss family activities, the girls schooling, and some farm news. Correspondence (1868-1871) relates to the Brown family and contains information on slave activities, schools, and family news. The bulk of the collection consists of genealogical materials of Mary C.R. Davis relating to the Lawson family.
  
  Identifier:   ms1213  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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10 Title:   Benjamin Perley Poore letter to Gorham Parsons  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Poore, Benjamin Perley, 1820-1887  
  Dates:   1840 February 18  
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The collection consists of one letter: dated Coosawattee, Murray County, Georgia, February 18, 1840, to Gorham Parsons, Fatherland Farm, near Newburyport, Massachusetts, regarding plantation activities, agriculture, slavery, and the status of the Cherokee Indians.
  
  Identifier:   ms1222  
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11 Title:   William Cooke plantation book  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Cooke, William  
  Dates:   1861-1868  
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The collection consists of "Mr. William Cooke's plantation book, Creighton Island," containing handwritten entries dating 1861-1868. Entries include allowance lists for hands on Creighton Island, and information regarding the number of hands assigned to a job. The volume also includes description of the weather, local news and events, and entries and accounts concerning Charles Harris Spalding's probate of his father Thomas Spalding's estate.
  
  Identifier:   ms1570  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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12 Title:   Thomas Carr family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Carr family  
  Dates:   1730-1891  
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The collection consists of the papers of Thomas Carr and his son, William A. Carr of Columbia County, Georgia from 1730-1891. Includes correspondence, bills, receipts, land grants, court records, bonds, and slave records. Materials mainly related to late 18th and early 19th century land speculation in Camden County (Ga.), Yazoo purchase, and northeast Georgia. Also includes some material relating to William Low (Mrs. Carr's grandson by her first husband).
  
  Identifier:   ms21  
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13 Title:   Affidavits regarding importation and sale of enslaved people  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Savannah (Ga.)  
  Dates:   1801 July 3, August 26  
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The collection consists of two affidavits regarding the importation and sales of enslaved people. Sworn and sealed July 3, 1801, Camden County, Georgia, signed "David Garvin", the first affidavit respects the sale of six enslaved people (delivered in the year 1799) to John Kinnard [sic]. The second affidavit (3 pages in length) dated August 26, 1801, Savannah, consists of testimony of Savannah slave traders Hector Mitchell and Mr. Gairdner, who swore that "sometime in the year [1797] a parcel of [thirty-six enslaved people] was picked up at sea." Mitchell and Gairdner, agents for John and James McBurney, the fugitives' owners, had the runaways put in jail; an ordinance of the Savannah city council arranged their sale to David Garvin. This statement goes on to mention that John Kinnard is now the legal owner of six of the [thirty-six enslaved people] named in the earlier affidavit of July 3.
  
  Identifier:   ms2599  
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14 Title:   "Some Observations of Plantation Life in Coastal Georgia Before and After the Civil War" by Olin Talley McIntosh  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   McIntosh, Olin Talley, 1881-1996  
  Dates:   1963-1965  
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The collection consists of the transcript of an oral expository by Olin Talley McIntosh. The narrative discusses the history and fortunes of the McIntosh family in McIntosh County, Georgia during the Colonial, Civil War, and post-Civil War periods. Topics include the influx of corrupt Carpetbaggers, apologist accounts of slavery and the advent of the Klu Klux Klan (sic), and the harsh conditions of poverty and rampant joblessness in the South directly following the Civil War.
  
  Identifier:   ms3652  
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15 Title:   James M. Adams family history scrapbook  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Adams, James Monroe, 1849-1931  
  Dates:   1911-1931  
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This collection contains a scrapbook of the Adams family history written by James M. Adams of Monroe, Georgia in 1911. The scrapbook includes a lengthy and detailed autobiographical manuscript describing his life, transcriptions of family letters, newspaper clippings, a genealogical chart, and detailed biographies of numerous individual family members that include births, deaths, marriages, and anecdotes.
  
  Identifier:   ms4267  
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16 Title:   Ebenezer Kellogg diary  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Kellogg, Ebenezer, 1789-1846  
  Dates:   1817-1818  
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The collection consists of the diary of Ebenezer Kellogg from 1817-1818 written to Chester Dewey, Professor of Mathmatics. Kellogg describes his journey from Williamstown, Massachusetts to Charleston, South Carolina, Savannah, Georgia, and towns along the Georgia coast. Most of the entries pertain to Georgia and discuss the people and towns Kellogg visited. Kellogg writes about plantations and farming practices, particularly cotton and rice; and slavery, including how enslaved populations lived, their treatment, and religious instruction.
  
  Identifier:   ms516  
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17 Title:   Kell family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Kell, Carolyn  
  Dates:   1857-1945  
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The collection consists of papers of the Kell family from 1857-1914, 1945. The papers contain the manuscript of John McIntosh Kell's book RECOLLECTIONS OF A NAVAL LIFE; an untitled manuscript by Kell's daughter Evelyn Kell d'Antignac regarding the friendship of slaves for their masters; correspondence from Kell and his wife, Blanche to their daughter Carolyn Kell at Fauquier Institute in Virginia and between other family members and friends; a diary (1907-1908) of Blanche Kell; photographs of family and shipmates of Kell; and a biographical sketch of Kell.
  
  Identifier:   ms2917  
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18 Title:   William C. Towle letters  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Towle, William C., active 1830  
  Dates:   1865  
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Two letters from Union surgeon William C. Towle written to his wife. First letter dates February 26, 1865 and details Towle's time in Savannah with the army and the newly free enslaved people he has hired since arriving. "I am living well, I pay a colored woman three dollars a month to cook for me, I have a man to take care of my horses and another to wait upon me..." Second letter dates May 29, 1865 and details his time in Augusta, seeing Jeff Davis pass through the town, and his knowledge of newly emancipated enslaved people who are told to "not consider the word Freedom as meaning Freedom from labor." Towle ends his second letter by promising to send "a negro girl" to his wife.
  
  Identifier:   ms4092  
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19 Title:   Newsom deed and farming journal  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Newsom family  
  Dates:   after 1838  
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The collection consists of two items: a journal entitled "Plan. Experience of Farming of N. J. Newsom, 1885," pertaining to labor, fertilizer, fencing, mules, wages, and equipment involved in farming; deed signed in Washington County, Georgia, stating Joeday Newsom leaves two lots of "negroes" to his children, dated 1838. The reverse side contains valuation of the two lots of "negro slaves," and is dated 1843.
  
  Identifier:   ms630  
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20 Title:   Champion family letters  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Unknown  
  Dates:   1816-1869  
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The collection consists of correspondence of the Champion family from 1816-1869. The bulk of the collection contains letters written by Aaron Champion of Savannah (Georgia) or Moses Champion of Monticello (Georgia) to Dr. Reuben Champion, Jr. of West Springfield (Massachusetts). The Champions comment on the social, political, and economic situations occurring in Georgia during. The collection also contains an 1816 letter from H. Stebbins of Savannah to Dr. Reuben Champion, Jr. pertaining to Savannah, the people, commerce, and slavery; three letters from Henry Champion of Montgomery (Alabama) to Dr. Champion discussing the proposed statehood of what was then the western territory; and a series of letters written from Savannah during the Civil War discussing the formation of the Confederacy, the progress of the war, and its effect upon the civilian population.
  
  Identifier:   ms1301  
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