SLACK FAMILY PAPERS, #3598, 1805-1891
Personal and family correspondence and financial, legal, and military papers of the Slack
family of Iberville Parish, Louisiana. Originally from Massachusetts, the Slacks were first
cotton and then sugar planters with some family members serving in the Confederacy. The
collection contains papers relating to slave purchases and sales (1828, 1831), a list of slave names, and an 1867 farming contract
between Henry Richmond Slack and African Americans. Microfilm available.
