The front page of the document includes the title "Bill of Sale for M. O'Connor" and the notation "J. J Palmer." The second page discusses the purchase of the slave Jim from the estate of John S. Palmer to M. O'Conner for $127. Refers to Jim as "Negro slave."
Slave pass written by Sarah H. Savage giving permission for an enslaved person named Mack to stay on Bedon's Alley for two months. The pass notes that Mack was "hired by his Mother."
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.
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.
The Newton Plantation Slave Lists and Blanket Distribution Book, 1854-1861, is a bound book recording the names of enslaved persons at Newton Plantation (thought to be in Georgetown County, South Carolina). The lists include information concerning births, deaths, marriages, and purchasers of slaves. The blanket list includes names of the slaves, and the years blankets were distributed.
The 1854 Samuel Wilson journal is a Miller's Planters & Merchants Almanac repurposed as a journal. The journal contains handwritten meterological observations, weekly reports of yellow fever deaths, mortality tables, deaths of slaves including murder, notes on family matters, fires, hurriances and other events that took place in Charleston in the year 1854.
The front page of the slave bill of sale is the notation "Peter G. Snowden to H. W. Ravenel Trustee." The reverse side is a bill signed by Peter G. Snowden describing the sale of two slaves named Cupid and George for the sum of $1,500 to Henry Ravenel, trustee under the marriage settlement of Snowden and his wife Laura Ana.
