NORTH CAROLINA MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, #1135-z, 1772- 1948
Accounts, letters, estate inventories, slave bills of sale, court papers, and other items
of scattered dates, subjects, and locations. Included are several slave bills of sale (1847,
1856); a manuscript certificate of character written by W. W.
White, Justice of the Peace of Granville, North Carolina, for Susan Pettiford, a free black
woman (1861); and a letter from Lawrence Wood Roberts Jr.
introducing Eneas Africanus, a book that Roberts praises as "a very human
portrayal of our old Southern Negroes, who are very near and dear to my heart" (1937).