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558. ROBERT ADDISON SCHOOLFIELD PAPERS

ca. 700 items, 1855-1973
Business correspondence and writings of one of the founders of the Riverside and Dan River Cotton Mills of Danville. In one of his manuscript histories of Dan River Mills, Schoolfield wrote of the riot of 1883 in Danville and the importing of North Carolina labor to "break negro rule."
(Acc. 10325)