CALVIN HENDERSON WILEY PAPERS, #781, 1774-1962
Correspondence, writings, diaries, personal account books, scrapbooks, records of women's
church activities, and miscellaneous books and papers of the family of Wiley, lawyer, editor,
novelist, and minister of Tennessee and North Carolina. Included are memoranda on the legal
status of several slaves after the death of their former master, Charles Kennon (1852), and a copy of Kennon's emancipation of his slaves (1853); information about Boston lectures on slavery (1855); and a disconnected, undated manuscript entitled "Duties of Christian Masters"
(box 13).