A letter from Virginia Wilkinson Belin at Sandy Knowe plantation to her mother, Eleanora Wilkinson. She shares some news of nearby Friendfield plantation, where 10 slaves ran away.
Notes on Charles Sumner's Lecture on White Slavery in the Barbary States, 1847, is a bound journal kept by a member of the Allston family in which they summarize the lecture given by Charles Sumner at the Boston Mercantile Library Association. The lecture discusses the Missouri Compromise, the "peculiar institution of the south," the history of slavery by the nations of antiquity, the importation of enslaved people into the English world, a timeline of slavery in the United States and Sumner's opinions of slavery as being cruel and sinful.
Bill of sale for "negro slave named Cyrus" who is the property of William S. McDonald and sold to Stephen Ford for $650. The reverse side includes a testimony to the sale.
A record of baptisms from 1848 to 1866 performed by Alexander Glennie, rector of All Saints' Church in Waccamaw, South Carolina. Prior to 1866, the book records the baptisms of enslaved people and lists their name, their date of baptism, their date of birth, the person enslaving them, their parents' names, and their sponsors. The post-Civil War entries in 1866 list the name, the date of baptism, the date of birth, the residence, the parents, and the sponsors of the freed person being baptized.
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.
