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CAROLINE ELIZA CLITHERALL DIARIES, #158, 1751-1860

The personal diaries of Clitherall, a plantation owner's wife and school teacher of Belleville and Waterloo, South Carolina, Thornbury Plantation, North Carolina, and Greensboro, Tuscaloosa, and Mobile, Alabama. Entries detail the reception of Clitherall's mother by family slaves in North Carolina (1784); the loss of slaves because of financial problems (1813); and Clitherall's attempts to instill religious beliefs in her slave Eliza (1853). Microfilm available.