ROBERT RUFFIN BARROW PAPERS, #2407, 1811-1858
This collection includes the original and a typed transcription of the plantation journal,
1857-1858, of Barrow, sugar planter and canal
operator in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. The journal documents the relationship between
plantation owner and overseer, and between overseers, field slaves, and slave drivers. It
also contains slave lists, accounts of resistance and punishments, and tasks assigned slaves,
and includes information on slave births, deaths, and illnesses as well as items distributed
to slaves and runaways. Microfilm available.