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21 Title:   Grace Lucas letter to Mary E. Johns  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Lucas, Grace  
  Dates:   1843 July 22  
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The collection consists of one letter: dated Athens, Georgia, July 22, 1843, to "My dear sister," Mary E. Johns, Davisborough, signed Grace Lucas
 
  Identifier:   ms1690  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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22 Title:   Hankinson family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Hankinson family  
  Dates:   1824-1903  
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The collection consists of papers of the family of Stephen Hankinson and Mary C. Speights from 1824-1903. Papers include a marriage bond between Hankinson and Speights, the will of Hankinson, papers concerning the ownership of people who were enslaved, and correspondence to Lee Starke Schieffelin and Corneille S. Schieffelin. The collection also includes a copy of The language of flowers, "property of Marie Essie Hankinson," an autograph book presented to Marie Essie Hankinson, and two scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings with poems and concerning current events.
 
  Identifier:   ms196  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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23 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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24 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  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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25 Title:   Charles D. Davis letter to Alanson Davis  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Davis, Charles D., 1796-1879  
  Dates:   1837 January 15  
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The collection consists of one letter
 
  Identifier:   ms3224  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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26 Title:   Ernestine Strong Alberti family letters  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Alberti, Ernestine Strong, 1811-  
  Dates:   1840-1845  
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The collection consists of letters from Ernestine Strong Alberti and her husband, Edwin R. Alberti, to their family members in Binghamton, New York. Correspondence describes their lives in Georgia, including the acquisition of enslaved people to labor on their newly acquired plantation and mill. The collection also includes letters from Cyrus Strong, Jr., Ernestine's brother, and her husband's business partner, to John Clapp.
 
  Identifier:   ms3539  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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27 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  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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28 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  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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29 Title:   Decatur County liquor license  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Unknown  
  Dates:   1849 October 2  
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Contains a license for retailers to sell spiritous liquors in Decatur County for one year issued to Jared Z. Jones and James D. Wooten. Restrictions on sale to enslaved and free persons of color is included
 
  Identifier:   ms4220  
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30 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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31 Title:   Broadside collection  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Hargrett Library  
  Dates:   1710s-2014  
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This collection consists of broadsides and other printed ephemera that were purchased or pulled from Hargrett collections. Topics include advertisements, acts and laws, theater, publishing, railroads, and economics.
 
  Identifier:   ms4299  
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32 Title:   Oaths to restrict liquor sales to enslaved and free persons of color  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Unknown  
  Dates:   1853-1854  
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This collection contains two documents from Dooly County, Georgia with four signed oaths from merchants to restrict the sales of liquor to any enslaved person or free person of color without the owner, overseer, employer, or guardian's consent.
 
  Identifier:   ms4559  
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33 Title:   Seaborn J. Mays papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Mays, Seaborn J., d. 1883  
  Dates:   1824-1879  
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The collection consists of receipted bills, promissory notes, and tax receipts of Seaborn J. Mays,including a bill of sale for an enslaved man named Phil, purchased from Thomas R. R. Cobb by Mays, and an enslaved woman named Caroline. A fi fa against William Moon for a dept owed to Mays. Also included is a record book of the Athens Benevolent Society.
 
  Identifier:   ms803  
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34 Title:   Noble Jones family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Jones, Noble Wimberly, 1723-1805  
  Dates:   1754-1838  
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The collection consists of papers of the Noble Jones family of Savannah, Georgia from 1754-1838, bound in volume. The last will and Testament of Noble Jones includes the bequest of Wormslow [Wormsloe] and enslaved people.
 
  Identifier:   ms1127  
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35 Title:   Inventory of people enslaved by Henry Bourguin  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Unknown  
  Dates:   1779 December 11  
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The collection consists of a handwritten estate inventory created December 11, 1779, by Henry Bourguin's daughters. The inventory includes a list of the people enslaved by Bourguin, including name with approximate preceived monetary value, and is divided into three columns showing the division of his estate by his three daughters.
 
  Identifier:   ms1205  
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36 Title:   Samuel Meeker letter to General James Winchester  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Meeker, Samuel, 1763-1832  
  Dates:   1804 December 27  
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The collection consists of a letter from Samuel Meeker writing to General James Winchester of Cragfont, Tennessee.
 
  Identifier:   ms1271  
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37 Title:   John B. Lamar plantation book  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Lamar, J. B. (John Basil), 1812-1862  
  Dates:   1847-1880  
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The collection consists of a plantation book of John B. Lamar, for his plantation in Sumter County, Georgia, from 1847-1880.
 
  Identifier:   ms131  
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38 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 enslaved people on Creighton Island, and information regarding the number of persons 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. Many of the early entries discuss the enslaved population on the plantation including their roles laboring in the field, cooking, nursing, attending the horses, and blacksmithing
 
  Identifier:   ms1570  
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39 Title:   Johnston family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Johnston family  
  Dates:   1836-1862  
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The collection consists of papers of the Malcolm Johnston family. Included are correspondences; two small account books; and Certificate no. 2457, for the purchase of a tract of land in Montgomery, Alabama, by Arthur B. Davis of Muscogee, Georgia. The collection also includes documents concerning enslaved people perceived to be property of the Johnston family: bill of sales for enslaved persons received by Richard Johnston; wills of Malcolm Johnston and E. L. Johnston; "List of property belonging to M. Johnston," listing 800 acres of land, and the name, sex, age, and monetary value of enslaved people
 
  Identifier:   ms1629  
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40 Title:   Samuel B. Clark papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Clark, Samuel B., 1812-1865  
  Dates:   1787-1869  
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The collection consists of papers of Samuel B. Clark, from 1787-1869. Included are indentures, a land survey, legal documents, and a plantation journal (1841-1869) containing business records pertaining to the Richmond County homestead, the Burke County (Georgia) farm, and land in Dooly County (Georgia). Entries include information on slave values, outlays for crops and household supplies, tax returns for Richmond and Burke counties, financial reports on building the McBean canal, and cotton sales.
 
  Identifier:   ms1497  
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