SCOTT FAMILY PAPERS, #4368, 1839-1867
Letters and a few other items chiefly relating to members of the Scott family of New
Hampshire and Vermont. Rogene A. Scott Bailey, an avid abolitionist, discusses slavery in
many letters sent home during her extensive stay in various southern states. She expresses
her sympathy for slave house servants in Carter County, Kentucky (1858); Southern opposition to Northern abolitionists and the imagined consequences of
a hypothetical slave insurrection (1859); her own ostracism due to her antislavery sentiments
(1860-1861); and rumors of slave insurrections in the Tennessee countryside (1861). The collection also contains one letter to Nancy (Smith) Scott
from a family friend who worked with freedmen in Wilmington, North Carolina (1864).