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HENRY WATSON JR. PAPERS. 3,797 items and 18 volumes
 
 
 
 
 
 
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HENRY WATSON JR. PAPERS. 3,797 items and 18 volumes

Personal and business papers of Greensboro, Alabama, lawyer and planter Henry Watson. Among them is information concerning the establishment of the Planter's Insurance Company, fear of a slave insurrection in 1860, slave impressment during the Civil War, and postwar labor contracts between blacks and their former masters. Volumes include plantation accounts, 1834-1866, and records of black laborers, slave and free, 1843-1866.