631. FLOYD L. WHITEHEAD PAPERS
48 items, 1820-1900
Personal and business papers of this Nelson
County resident. A temperance petition to the Nelson County court protests the selling of liquor and
attributes unrest and rebellion among slaves to liquor. There is a March 14, 1837, letter from Milo Morris, apparently a slave of the Whiteheads
who had the authority to buy and sell slaves, to "My Dear Master" (Floyd Whitehead). A May
15, 1839, letter from Robert Rives to
Whitehead asks that Morris be kept away from Rives's slaves.
(Acc.
8712, a-d)
