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GIBSON AND HUMPHREYS FAMILY PAPERS, #922, 1846-1919

Chiefly correspondence relating to the Gibson and Humphreys families of Live Oak Plantation and Oak Forest Plantation near Tigerville in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, and of Sumner's Forest Plantation near Versailles, Kentucky. One letter, written from Yale College, discusses two speakers who presented lectures at the college on their opposing views of slavery (1854).