Letter from Stoke Plantation Overseer Thomas Finklea to John Ball, October 11, 1833

Title:

Letter from Stoke Plantation Overseer Thomas Finklea to John Ball, October 11, 1833

Date:

1833

Creator (Personal):

Finklea, Thomas

Description:

A letter from Stoke Plantation overseer Thomas Finklea to John Ball in Charleston discussing that the enslaved persons were summoned to work on the "Publick road," a shipment of butter, the pea crop, and the work of Scipio, Daniel, and Jack. Makes notation that Daniel and Jack were "flogged" for not following the overseer's orders, searching the "negro houses," an inventory of cattle and the poor health of numerous enslaved persons.

Collection Title:

Ball Family Papers, 1631-1895

Contributing Institution:

South Carolina Historical Society

Media Type:

Manuscripts

Personal or Corporate Subject:

Ball family

Topical Subject:

Cattle, Slave records, Plantations--South Carolina, Slavery--South Carolina, Shipping, Inventories, Health, Letters, Punishment, Roads, Peas, Butter, Crops, Sick, Flagellation, Letter writing, Plantation overseer, Enslaved persons, and Enslaved persons--Dwellings

Geographic Subject:

South Carolina

S.C. County:

Berkeley County (S.C.)

Language:

English

Shelving Locator:

11-516A-32A (1134.00)

Date Digital:

2023-07

Digitization Specifications:

600 dpi, 24-bit depth, color, Epson Expression 10000XL. Archival masters are tiffs.

Format:

image/jpeg

Copyright Status Statement:

Public Domain.

Access Information:

For more information and re-use requirements contact the South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, SC, 29401.

Admin ID:

290898