534. RANDOLPH FAMILY PAPERS
ca. 6,000 items, ca. 1760-1930
Personal correspondence and business papers of the Randolph, Page, and
Taylor families of Albemarle County (descendants
of Thomas Jefferson), including many of the
papers of Thomas Jefferson Randolph. There are
many references to slaves and their treatment, e.g., a January 11, 1827, letter from P. H. Leuba to [Thomas
Jefferson
Randolph] mentioning that the
slave named Jeanette he recently bought from
Randolph had been severely burned by Randolph's overseer and thrown into a
fire twice and that he could not return her because she feared for her life
but that he believed her value was much less than the sale price; an account
of the sales of Thomas Jefferson's slaves in 1829;
and a list of slaves, possibly belonging to Thomas
Jefferson Randolph.
(Acc. 8937, etc.)
