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ROSWELL ELMER DIARY, #4670, 1829-1830

The manuscript diary of Elmer, editor of the North Carolina Spectator and Western Advertiser, a weekly newspaper published in Rutherfordton, North Carolina. Diary entries include a description of Elmer's meeting of a group of slaves en route to Alabama where they were to be sold (1829), and of the general disappointment in Rutherfordton when a slave, convicted of an unspecified crime, was exiled from the town rather than hanged (1829).