RAVENEL FAMILY PAPERS, #1022, 1790-1918
Personal correspondence, legal, and financial papers of the Ravenel and related DuBose
families, prominent planters of South Carolina. The collection contains information on slaves
owned by the Ravenels and other families. The Jonathan Eady Estate items include a will
naming slaves owned by Samuel DuBose (1857-1858) and a letter fragment and receipt for the
sale of a slave named Isaac (1854-1856). The Abigail Ravenel Estate papers contain a bill of
sale for a slave named Rose; correspondence on hiring out slaves; accounts for goods
purchased for slaves; and a slave birth list (1852-1859). Also included is a memorandum on an
estate dispute that included slaves (1828). Microfilm available.