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NICHOLAS WASHINGTON WOODFIN PAPERS, #1689, 1795-1919
Woodfin of Buncombe County, North Carolina, was a political leader of western North Carolina, a lawyer, and an agricultural experimenter. The papers contain three letters from slaves or ex- slaves who had gone to California with members of the family to work in the gold fields (1853-1855). Microfilm available.
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