DANIEL MOREAU BARRINGER PAPERS, #3359, 1797-1873
Family, business, and political papers of Barringer of Cabarrus County and Raleigh, North
Carolina, UNC student, lawyer, legislator, U.S. representative, minister to Spain, and
Democratic Party member and chairman. Correspondence discusses the execution of slaves
accused of killing a white woman (1828); the buying of slaves
(1849; 1863); a "Negro convention" at
which a former Barringer slave was a secretary (1865); conditions of Southern freedmen (1865, 1867); a "Negro procession" and meeting
in Lexington, North Carolina (1869); and requests for aid for two
brothers convicted of illegal activities associated with the Ku Klux Klan (1871). References to the purchase of slaves express attempts to keep slave families
intact.