A letter from Langdon Cheves Sr. asking for assistance into discovering the cause of death for four enslaved persons at Delta Plantation. The letter mentions that four enslaved persons died in the field during planting time and that due to insufficient work, the overseer was asked to "employ the necessary punishments to enforce obediency..." Cheves states that punishments included seventy-five lashes which he deemed "perfectly harmless to him and much short of what would have been generally inflicted for the misconduct of which he was guilty."
A letter to Langdon Cheves Sr. concerning the cause of death for four enslaved persons on Delta Plantation. The letter mentions a possible chronic malady as the cause rather than "improper severity" by the overseer or harm by other enslaved persons. Makes a remark that the enslaved man Charles, thought to have committed suicide, may have fallen into the canal accidentally.
