HENRY LOUIS BENNING PAPERS, #2225, 1818-1897
Primarily military papers of Benning, Confederate Army officer of Georgia and Virginia.
Items relating to slavery include the summary of a Baldwin Superior Court case arising from
the sale of blacks seized by the state of Georgia because of a violation of the U.S. law
prohibiting the importation of slaves (1818); and information about
a case brought before the Supreme Court of Georgia that involved the sale of slaves in
connection with a mortgage foreclosure (1855). Microfilm only.
