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593. TAYLOE FAMILY PAPERS

ca. 300 items, 1830-93
A group of business and family letters. Much of the correspondence is between Henry A. Tayloe in Alabama and his brother Benjamin Ogle Tayloe in Virginia and centers around the business of getting Virginia slaves to Alabama. There are many accounts of sales and prices. Other references to slaves and black farmhands after the war fill these letters.
(Acc. 38-630, 5854)