IVERSON LEWIS BROOKS PAPERS, #3249, 1793-1865
Correspondence, financial and legal materials, and other items relating to Brooks's
activities as teacher, Baptist preacher, and plantation owner of Georgia and South Carolina,
and the activities of his family. Brooks, who amassed through marriage and purchase
considerable holdings of land and slaves, was a staunch supporter of slavery. Included in
this collection are letters from overseers discussing the condition of slaves on Brooks's
Georgia plantation (1846-1855); letters
documenting Brooks's desire to publish an account of the South's view on slavery, "A Defence
of the South Against the Reproachments and Encroachments of the North: In Which Slavery is
shown to be an Institution of God" (1850); receipts of slave sales (1787-1832); a document of inheritance concerning the management of
slaves in Georgia (1831); and a slave list compiled for tax
purposes (1861). Microfilm available.