488. JAMES MONROE COLLECTION
ca. 500 items, 1783-1830
Included are letters in which Monroe
discussed slavery and the buying and selling of slaves, such as an April 7, 1788, letter on the sale of a slave;
a February 25, 1817, letter to William
Noland on the alleged mistreatment of one of his slaves; an August 12, 1822, letter to his overseer on
the health of a slave; a June 6, 1830,
letter to [Egbert Watson] on the possibility of
selling some of his slaves; and a letter of July 5,
1830, to Watson again discussing the
sale of a slave, Nancy.
