430. LATANE FAMILY PAPERS
ca. 710 items, 1650-1898
Personal, legal, military, and business correspondence and accounts of
this family of Essex County. A number of letters
and documents refer to individual slaves and slavery in general, including a
December 10, 1772, letter from Samuel Peachey to William
Latane asking that a young male slave be sent to him to learn the
blacksmith trade; a 1794 circular referring to the
transportation of slaves from Africa to the
West Indies; and several slave
inventories and bills of sale.
(Acc. 6490)