HUBARD FAMILY PAPERS, #360, 1741-1953
Business and personal papers of the family of Edmund Wilcox Hubard, planter, militia
officer, state legislator, and U.S. representative of Virginia. Materials include slave lists
and documents of slave sales and valuations (1782, 1790, 1818, 1826); letters offering to buy or sell a slave in order to prevent the separations of
married couples (1830); letters discussing emancipation (1832, 1854-1860) and plans for
promoting the moral and religious uplift of slaves (1856); and a
legislative bill for sending free blacks out of the country (1832). The collection also
contains papers relating to the Freedmen's Bureau and arrangements for hiring African
Americans (1865), and discussions of the treatment of African
Americans by whites in the workplace (1871).
