618. WALLACE FAMILY PAPERS
ca. 2,500 items, ca. 1790-1900
Business correspondence and documents and personal correspondence
of Michael
Wallace of Madison County. There are scattered references to
slavery, such as a May 12, 1833, note of
sale of a family of slaves to H. H. Wallace with
the understanding that the family would be kept together; an 1837 list of the slaves on Michael Wallace's estate; and an April
22, 1833, letter discussing the price of slaves and stating: "The
cholera has thinned the Negros much on the coast and the South generally and
they are then said to be selling very high."
(Acc. 10241)
