HENTZ FAMILY PAPERS, #332, 1782-1932
Personal, medical, financial, and legal papers, diaries, and autobiographies of members of
the Hentz family of France, Alabama, and Florida. An autobiography (1827-1893) includes
comments on northern impressions of slavery; the medical treatment of plantation slaves in
Florida; the punishment of slaves in Florida; black Union troops in the Civil War; the murder
of a white sheriff by four black men and their subsequent trial and execution; northern
schoolteachers and their treatment of freedmen in Florida; and the murder of a white man by a
freedman and the arrest and lynching of the latter in Florida. Partial microfilm
available.
