NATHANIEL RUSSELL MIDDLETON PAPERS, #507, 1761-1919
Papers of Middleton, a Charleston, South Carolina, plantation owner, treasurer of the
Northeastern Railroad Company and of the city of Charleston, and president of the College of
Charleston. In addition to standard family matters and the tensions of family life divided
between North and South, letters and papers discuss managing the Middleton plantation,
"Bolton-on-the-Stono" (1842); a slave death on the plantation
(1845); a slave revolt in Charleston that resulted in the death of
several slaves (1849); and political troubles arising between North and South. Included is a
letter from Annie Middleton in which she describes reading Uncle Tom's Cabin and
her resulting anti-slavery sentiments (1852). Microfilm
available.
