266. JOHN HARTWELL COCKE PAPERS
ca. 50,000 items, ca. 1725-1930
Correspondence, diaries, account books, and plantation records of this
Fluvanna County planter and of various members
of the Cocke and related families. This
collection, a combination of many separate accessions, is invaluable for a
study of slave life on large plantations. Other areas of interest are the
American Colonization Society and letters from freed slaves in Liberia. A 1961 University
of Virginia Ph.D. dissertation on Cocke by Martin Boyd Coyner is a very helpful tool to use in
approaching the Cocke manuscripts.
(Acc.
640, etc.)
