Kenneth Rayner Letter, November 5, 1847
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Title
Kenneth Rayner Letter, November 5, 1847
Subject
Antebellum Plantation Life
Description
Rayner describes a 17-day journey with his family from Raleigh to Baltimore to Wheeling to Cincinnati to Louisville to Nashville, avoiding Pittsburgh for danger of carrying slaves through region, meets up with Maury County friends George and Lucius again prior to heading west and south to check on his land holdings. He discusses with friend Duncan Cameron politics, the Whig party, Tennessee's Supreme Court, and the upcoming presidential election.
Creator
Kenneth Rayner
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
November 5, 1847
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: 43, folder: 1020
Coverage
United States: Louisville, KY; Baltimore, MD; Cumberland, MD; New York; Raleigh, NC; Cincinnati, OH; Pittsburgh, PA; Maury County, TN; Nashville, TN; Wheeling, VA
Text Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Paper
Files
Collection
Citation
Kenneth Rayner, “Kenneth Rayner Letter, November 5, 1847,” Plantation Letters, accessed October 20, 2026, https://plantationletters.org/items/show/68.