DAVID FRANKLIN THORPE PAPERS #4262, 1854-1944
Business and personal papers of businessman and planter Thorpe, including correspondence,
diaries, and account books regarding cotton production and trade in the Sea Islands and Rhode
Island. Diaries discuss plantation affairs and slave and free labor (1861- 1869), while
correspondence mentions religious practices of freedmen. Included in the collection are
several letters from northern friends and family members who were abolitionists and a booklet
of slave songs (folder 24).