University of Virginia Library

699. WILLIAM BYRD LETTERBOOKS

3 items, 1728-41
Correspondence of William Byrd Il, published in The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover Virginia. 1684-1776, ed. Marion Tinling, 2 vols. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1977). There is frequent mention of slavery and blacks. For example, the July 12, 1736, letter of William Byrd II to the earl of Egmont comments about his fear that the continued importation of African slaves would eventually lead to a rebellion.
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