GEORGE W. MORDECAI PAPERS, #522, 1767-1916
Personal, legal and business correspondence, and financial papers of Mordecai and of his
wife, Margaret B. (Cameron) Mordecai, of Raleigh, North Carolina. Correspondence discusses
the death of a slave under the employ of the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, and the resulting
lawsuit; the American Colonization Society (1840); runaway slaves
and the need to purchase a slave who was to be sent South and was the spouse of a Mordecai
slave (1853). Financial papers include slave bills of sale; slave
records (1858-1862); and a memorandum on slaves (1824). Microfilm available.