JOHN FRANCIS HAMTRACK CLAIBORNE PAPERS, #151, 1797-1884
The Claiborne papers contain a small number of items relating to the personal life of
Claiborne, lawyer, congressman, editor, and historian of Mississippi and Louisiana, and
consist largely of materials collected by him in preparation of a history of Miss. Included
are power-of-attorney papers of Ann Young of Washington, DC, given to Claiborne for the
purpose of recovering her minor son, a free black (1836); a long
account of grievances of Margaret Forbush, the wife of a freedman, claiming that a group of
white men deprived her of property and requesting the protection of the U.S. government and
courts (1869); a reply to an unidentified antislavery treatise
(Folder 60); fragments and drafts on slavery (Folder 62); and newspaper clippings on slavery
(Folder 73).
