A bill of sale for enslaved persons from Cleland Kinloch Huger to Langdon Cheves Sr. The sale includes an exchange of the enslaved girl Mary for the enslaved girl Peggy.
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.
Inventory and appraisal from the personal estate of Charlotte Ann Coachman, July 1847, with sixty-seven enslaved persons listed by name and their value.
A bill of sale for twenty-three named enslaved persons from the Bank of Charleston to Langdon Cheves Sr. for $8,460. The names of the enslaved persons are listed as Eliza, Katy, John, Sharper, Patience, Grace, Ellen, Nat, Belly, Peridon, Juliet, Lonorn, Satyrah, Sandy, Juliet, Patty, Benah, Moses, Ellen, Louise, Hannah, Hallah, and Guy.
A letter from Langdon Cheves Sr. at Log Hall to Langdon Cheves Jr. discussing a new threshing machine, the hire of a new carpenter, the permanent hire of the enslaved men Solomon and Israel, and the purchase of items.
