About the Collection
The Woodward Manning Papers, 1771-1906, collection contains loose papers belonging to planter, store owner, and hotelkeeper Woodward Manning (1808-1881). Papers consist of an agreement to hire an enslaved woman and her child, a deed of gift for a plantation and correspondence between Manning and family members in Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana. Topics discussed include yellow fever, the cotton crop, the construction of the railroad in Alabama, the “Freedmen’s Contract,” and the death of soldiers during the Civil War.
