602. TRIST, BURKE, AND RANDOLPH FAMILY PAPERS
ca. 1,500 items, 1721-1969
Mainly personal and legal papers of Nicholas
Philip Trist and the related families of Albemarle County. There is very little mention of slavery in the
personal correspondence except for a few scattered letters such as one
of November 22, 1818, from Thomas Mann
Randolph to Nicholas Trist mentioning an incident
at a neighboring Albemarle plantation owned by the
Higginbothams involving the hanging suicide
of a male slave who apparently took his own life because of punishment
inflicted by a new overseer.
(Acc. 10487)
