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MATTHEW SMART DAVIS PAPERS, #4125, 1852-1914
Letters, report cards, and other items relating to Davis and other members of the Davis family of Warren County, North Carolina. The bulk of the collection consists of letters written to Davis while he was a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. These discuss, among other topics, sicknesses among Davis slaves (1853) and neighborhood suspicion of a black woman who was accused of arson (1854).
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