A note from a newspaper in Newburyport, Massachusetts writing about the voyage chartered by John Redpath to Haiti. This voyage includes thirteen "color'd" emigrants and abolitionist John Brown, son of old "Ossawatamie" or commonly spelled "Osawatomie."
A list of enslaved persons given blankets. The document also includes notations that the enslaved man James is a carpenter and had an epileptic attack, Joe is a carpenter and cooper, and Murria is half-witted.
The Robert F.W. Allston Account Book covers the years 1857-1859 discussing Chicora Wood and Nightingale Hall Plantations. The book includes information on acres of land, stock and cattle, payments and accounts, a purchase of forty-one enslaved persons and the number of enslaved persons at each plantation in which they are listed as dependencies. Book includes a second use with passages written from the back of the book towards the front.
A statement made by Robert F.W. Allston concerning a bond of $2,250 for a tract of land. The letter names Robert F.W. Allston as trustee for Joseph B. Allston, William Allan Allston and Benjamin Allston under the will of Elizabeth Blythe.
A letter to Benjamin Allston from J. Sparkman regarding life on a rice plantation. He recounts that many from the north have "fancied slavery such a monster" and how the northern people question if enslaved persons are locked in chains at night. Sparkman recounts the times in which the enslaved persons on his property locked up him and his family in the house and hid the keys in their pockets.
