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EDMUND RUFFIN JR. PLANTATION JOURNAL, #639, 1851-1862, 1866- 1873

The journal of Ruffin, wheat, tobacco, and cotton planter and owner of plantations in Prince George, Hanover, and Amelia Counties, Virginia. The collection includes some remarks on slave health, births and deaths (1855-1861); on abandonment of the plantation at the arrival of Union soldiers; and mention of freedmen's political activities in Hanover County. Microfilm available.