University of Virginia Library

MITCHELL KING PAPERS, #400, 1801-1876

Correspondence, accounts, and legal materials of King, teacher, lawyer, and judge of the Charleston City Court, who owned property in Charleston, South Carolina; Flat Rock, North Carolina, and on the Savannah River, in Chatham County, Georgia. Correspondence relates to, among other topics, the danger abolitionists posed to the South (1848). The collection also includes numerous slave bills of sale (1801-1828) and a document emancipating two slaves (1850). Microfilm available.