ANDREW MCCOLLAM PAPERS, #449, 1792-1935
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers belonging to the family and connections of Andrew
McCollam, sugar planter, deputy surveyor, and member of the Louisiana Secession Convention of
1861. Includes slave accounts that describe resistance during the
Civil War. Ellen McCollam's plantation journal (1842-1851) contains extensive slave lists and
a draft of a public statement by G. F. Connely and Andrew McCollam concerning Lincoln's
election and the slavery controversy. Microfilm available.