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JOHN WROUGHTON MITCHELL PAPERS, #4282, 1817-1865

Correspondence and related materials of Mitchell, a Charleston, South Carolina, attorney and Commissioner of Deeds of South Carolina in New York City. The collection contains both professional and personal correspondence that refers to such topics as slave sales and auctions, runaways, slave resistance, the Charleston Work House, and the hiring of slaves (1837-1846). Microfilm available.