JOHN KIMBERLY PAPERS, #398, 1821-1880
Correspondence and personal, household, and farm accounts of the family of John Kimberly,
professor of chemistry and agriculture at the University of North Carolina and farmer in
Buncombe County, North Carolina. Correspondence includes discussion of plantation slaves
(1835); the sale of slaves (1837, 1864); and the difficulties of living under Reconstruction's land
policies. The collection also contains a letter from a former slave written from Africa
giving news of her family and asking about her former owners and friends in North Carolina
(1859).
