BOYKIN FAMILY PAPERS, #78, 1748-1932
Family, business, and military papers of the Boykin family of Camden, South Carolina.
Mainly business and plantation papers, the collection contains slave bills of sale; a
typescript narrative entitled "The Tell-Tale Letter Picked Up by a Slave" (1865); and transcriptions of letters concerning John W. DeSaussure's emancipation of
his slaves (1865). Post-Civil War materials contain the paper
"Articles of Agreement between Freedmen and Women and S. Boykin" (1868) and letters concerning labor problems on plantations (1865-1881).
