University of Virginia Library

JOHN PETERS BROUN PAPERS, #2448-z, 1819-1939

Family correspondence of Broun, planter of Richland County, South Carolina, and Lowndes County, Alabama. Correspondence includes a letter advising Broun to sell southern property due to the impending abolition of slavery (1842), and a letter recollecting past days of "loved and trusted slaves" (1933). The collection also includes a list of slaves and their supposed ages and valuations (1843). Microfilm available.