242. WILLIAM D. CABELL PAPERS
ca. 3,600 items, 1806-93
Correspondence and other papers of this Nelson
County and Washington, D.C., educator.
Scattered throughout are infrequent references to slavery, such as a December 5, 1863, letter from John Fry to Cabell
discussing the hiring of slaves; an 1864 list of
farm servants; an 1863 valuation of a slave at
$3,250 by a committee of freeholders; a September
18, 1863, letter from a slave asking Cabell to keep his wife; an 1864 list of
shoes delivered to slaves; and an August 18,
1856, letter from Cabell to Joseph C. Cabell mentioning that a number of slaves
had been killed by poisonous brandy.
(Acc. 276, etc.)
