QUITMAN FAMILY PAPERS, #616, 1784-1978
Correspondence and social, economic, and political papers of four generations of the
Quitman family and the related Duncan, Lovell, and Turner families of Natchez, Mississippi,
and Sewanee, Tennessee. Includes a list of slaves purchased from Ballard, Franklin and
Company (date unknown); miscellaneous slave lists (1837, 1838);
accounts of a cholera epidemic among Mississippi slaves (1848-1849); discussion of the
behavior and disappearance of Mississippi slaves during the Civil War (1864); and a plantation book containing slave records (1833-39, 1849). Microfilm
available.