PHILIP HENRY PITTS PAPERS, #602, 1814-1884
Correspondence, manuscript volumes, and miscellaneous papers of Pitts, cotton planter of
Union Town (now Uniontown), Perry County, Alabama. Correspondence includes information on
hiring out slaves (1839). The volumes include accounts, memoranda, and diary entries and
contain information on the births and deaths of slaves; purchase and hire of slaves from
other planters; runaway slaves; and a case of slaves murdering their master (1850-1853;
1860-1863). Volumes also contain accounts of medical expenses for slaves; and the purchase of
twenty marriage licenses for freedmen (1856-1865). Microfilm available.