Paul Cameron Letter, October 12, 1844
Dublin Core
Title
Paul Cameron Letter, October 12, 1844
Subject
Antebellum Plantation Life
Description
Paul writes to his father in Raleigh, discussing plans to move some slaves to his new plantation in Greene County, Alabama, procuring tents for women and children, buttons for clothing, and mules for wagons. An overseer named Walker from the Snowhill plantation adjacent to Stagville is mentioned as sick, along with other family members and a number of slaves. An exhibition at the revolutionary "battle ground of the Regulators" is referenced.
Creator
Paul Cameron
Source
Cameron Family Papers, 1757-1978
Publisher
Photographed, transcribed, tagged, and shared in this Omeka Collection by Dr. Kevin Oliver, North Carolina State University College of Education
Date
October 12, 1844
Rights
As noted in the source collection, “copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.”
Relation
The Southern Historical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Format
PDF
Language
English
Type
Personal correspondence, letter
Identifier
series: 1.3.3, box: 40, folder: 935
Coverage
United States: North Carolina (Haw River; Hillsboro; Stagville)
Text Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Paper
Files
Collection
Citation
Paul Cameron, “Paul Cameron Letter, October 12, 1844,” Plantation Letters, accessed October 20, 2026, https://plantationletters.org/items/show/3.