LENOIR FAMILY PAPERS, #426, 1763-1936
Correspondence, legal, financial, political and plantation records, and personal papers of
the Lenoir family of Caldwell County, North Carolina. Correspondence includes discussion of
the buying, selling, and supervision of slaves (subseries 1.1 and 1.3); the containment of
slavery (subseries 1.2), and references to free blacks in North Carolina (subseries 1.4). The
collection also contains a letter discussing the exodus of North Carolina African Americans
to the North (1875).