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221. BREMO RECESS PAPERS

ca. 3,500 items, ca. 1690-1950
Business and personal papers of the Cocke and Cabell families of Bremo Recess in Fluvanna County. The papers contain a number of references to blacks and letters of former slaves who had emigrated to Liberia, e.g., Matilda Skipwith to Miss S. F. Cocke, October 1844, and Matilda Lomax to Miss Sarah Cox, 1853. Included are an 1865 list of slaves at Recess; an 1856 letter from the president of the American Colonization Society, J. H. Latrobe; and an 1823 letter (9513-h) from Ann B. Cocke to Louisiana Cocke about a slave wedding.
(Acc. 9513, etc.)