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173. EDWIN ANDERSON ALDERMAN PAPERS

ca. 15,000 items, 1861-1931
Consists almost entirely of the papers of the first president of the University of Virginia. Some early papers of the Alderman family include a receipt for the purchase of a slave in Wilmington, N.C., on January 21, 1863". There are also some documents containing statistical information about education in North Carolina in the 1870s and 1880s including references to blacks.
(Acc. 1001, etc.)