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211. THOMAS S. BOCOCK PAPERS

ca. 300 items, 1760-1897
Correspondence, financial and legal papers, ledgers, and speeches of Bocock and the Bocock, Thornhill, Christian, Stephens, Flood, Patteson, and Diuguid families of Buckingham and Appomattox counties. Among the subjects discussed are slavery, abolition, the antebellum South, and the use of slaves on military fortifications. Included is a minute book of the New Hope Baptist Church, Augusta County, with many references to blacks.
(Acc. 10612)