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 | Guide to African-American Documentary Resources in North Carolina |  |
WILLIAM RUFFIN SMITH PAPERS, #678, 1772-1959
Chiefly business papers of the Smith family of Halifax County, North Carolina, with estate papers relating to the Spruill and other connected families. The collection contains a list of slave dates of birth (1775-1849); a certificate of marriage for free blacks Richard Smith and Tracey Laurence (1868); and an undated brief essay by Claiborne Smith entitled "The Post Emancipation Negro."
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