BULLOCK AND HAMILTON FAMILY PAPERS, #101, 1757-1971
Personal and business correspondence and legal and financial papers of the Bullock and
Hamilton families of Granville (now Vance) County, North Carolina, and Lowndes County,
Mississippi. The Bullock papers contain a letter discussing opinions on slavery (1844) and the will of Sally Fain, an African-American woman who owned
slaves (1854). Hamilton family papers refer to the purchase,
rental, and treatment of slaves and to the issue of runaway slaves as well as to the North's
view on the treatment of slaves and the relocation of freed slaves to the North. The
collection also contains a letter from a freedman in New Orleans who was trying to purchase
his enslaved sisters from Hamilton (1851). Microfilm available.