A document under the title "500 White Registered Citizens" with notes from a meeting such as "to preserve order and to protect the property and lives of the citizens white & black."
This document is a mortgage under the title "Mortgage of 7 Negroes" by Peter G. Gourdin to Samuel G. Barker. The enslaved are referred to as "negro slaves" throughout the document.
A newspaper clipping discussing the legislature of South Carolina specifically focusing on mortgages. Makes reference to the "property mortgage of one or more slaves."
A list of enslaved men, women and children under the title "List of Negroes." The list includes first names, dates of birth, gender, their work as a full or half time field hand, diseases and their "usefulness." Makes notations on specific slaves and their abilities to work as well as their specific jobs on the plantation.
