DAVID CRENSHAW BARROW PAPERS, #1251, 1834-1893
Correspondence and other papers of Barrow and members of his family of Lexington, Georgia.
The collection includes slave bills of sale and a receipt from a jailor for a runaway slave
(1850). Correspondence, generally relating to Barrow's plantations
in various parts of Georgia, discusses preaching to slaves (1859);
slave insurrections and runaways (1860-1865);
promises made to slaves concerning the percentage of crops they would receive; efforts to
keep slaves out of Sherman's path (1865); attempts to raise slave
troops and an advisement against the use of slave soldiers in the Confederacy (1865); an agreement with "Tillman, a freedman" for labor (1865); and voting (1872).
