LOUIS MANIGAULT PAPERS. 2,038 items and four volumes
Personal and business papers of Louis Manigault and the Manigault family who began to
acquire rice-planting land in the mid-eighteenth century, and by 1850 owned several
plantations. The papers concerning their plantations begin in 1837
and continue through 1883. There are work schedules, slave lists, and instructions to
overseers on the care of slaves and the management of plantations. One of the volumes in the
collection is an 1852 prescription book concerning the medical
treatment of plantation slaves.