WILLIAM G. DICKSON PAPERS, #221, 1767-1920
Chiefly business and personal papers of the family of Dickson, UNC alumnus, attorney, and
state representative of Burke (now Caldwell) County, North Carolina. The collection includes
letters discussing the poor health of Tennessee slaves (1814-1818); freed slaves leaving their masters (1865); and the imprisonment of a white man in Morganton, North Carolina, for shooting
a black man (1865). A personal journal records the production
output of a Kings Mountain iron forge that employed slave labor (1837- 1852).