Final notice of auction for Nightingale Hall Plantation by auctioneer Alonzo White. The notice gives information concerning the location and fields of the plantation, the property's condition, cattle and the names of enslaved persons living there.
A list of enslaved persons and other property that have not been appraised. The names of the enslaved persons are listed as Dolly, Jenny, Scipio, Lucy and eight children, "Clarender" and six children, Amos, Robert, Rosa (a girl about twenty-two) and a young boy named Scipio. The names include valuations above them.
A document outlining statistics of a rice plantation with one-hundred enslaved persons as a response for a request of this information from the Executive Department for the state of South Carolina. Statistics include labor performed by enslaved persons with special circumstances for pregnant women, types of food, allowances, clothing and blankets given out to enslaved persons, types of buildings the enslaved people lived in, the medical attention they receive including how faithful servants and valuable servants were given priority, comparisons between northern, foreign and native doctors, the religions the enslaved population practice, the teaching of religion to enslaved children, and general remarks about a decrease in the amount of runaways and rebellion in the last twenty years.
