BRYAN FAMILY PAPERS, #96, 1704-1940
Primarily business papers and correspondence documenting the professional and commercial
activities and home life of the families of James W., James A., and Charles S. Bryan.
Correspondence covers topics such as the transfer and sale of slaves (1841); the murder of an overseer by a slave (1840); rumors
of a slave insurrection in New Bern, North Carolina (1840); legal
justice for the murder of a slave (1846); the Fugitive Slave Act of
1850; race riots in Boston (1851); the
issue of a free black woman of British citizenship who had been enslaved in America (1851); the issue of confiscated land given to freedmen (1883); the white supremacy movement (1890s); and the Ku Klux Klan (1920s). Microfilm available.