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THOMAS BUTLER KING PAPERS, #1252, 1763-1868
Correspondence and records of King, a planter on St. Simon's Island, Georgia. Family correspondence pertains to plantation affairs, including issues such as punishing a runaway slave, taking care of sick slaves, and the difficulties of raising children around slavery (1809-1859). Post-Civil War letters refer to running plantations with German and black labor in Mississippi and Louisiana (1866-1868).
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