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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