588. ALEXANDER H. H. STUART PAPERS
ca. 500 items, 1791-1895
Personal correspondence of this prominent lawyer and politician of
Staunton. Included are such items as a slave sale in 1814, a will providing for transference of slaves, and a mounted
clipping on the Virginia Secession Convention. There is a copy of the Report
of the Joint Committee of the General Assembly on the Harpers Ferry
Outrages, most of its twenty-four pages constituting a defense of slavery
and an attack on the treatment of blacks in the North.
(Acc. 345)
