JAMES B. BLACKFORD, COLLECTOR, PAPERS, #3760-z, 1822-1879
Chiefly unrelated 19th century letters from several different states collected by Blackford
of Richmond, Virginia. Writers and topics include a traveler in Mississippi who refers to the
rental of several of his slaves to pick cotton during a temporary layover caused by a local
yellow fever epidemic (1833); a slave owner in Shackleford, North
Carolina, concerning possible charges brought against a slave for beating a slave owned by
the writer (1835); and a Baptist minister in Vicksburg,
Mississippi, to a minister in New York, expressing concern over the impact of the abolition
movement on missionary efforts (1844).
