ELLIOTT AND GONZALES FAMILY PAPERS, #1009, 1701-1898
Correspondence, financial and legal papers, account books and writings of the Elliott and
Gonzales families of Beaufort and Colleton Districts, South Carolina. Correspondence covers
various topics, including a slave rebellion (1822); buying and
selling of slaves (1827); hiring out of slaves; attitudes of
Northerners and Southerners toward slavery and slaveholders (1847);
plantation management (1848, 1849); the refusal of slaves to work,
concern that slaves would run away to the Union Army, and efforts to recapture runaway slaves
(1861); and a comparison of the black and white work ethic.
Financial and legal papers contain slave bills of sale and slave lists (1855, 1863). The collection also includes a memorandum
book listing names, probably of slaves (1859); a plantation journal listing slaves bought
with the plantation (1840-1851); and letters written by slaves who were drivers on
plantations (1848-1849). Microfilm available.
