W. F. Wade Letter, February 5, 1847
Dublin Core
Title
W. F. Wade Letter, February 5, 1847
Subject
Antebellum Plantation Life
Description
Jailor in Tuskeegee, Alabama, who caught runaway slave Milton writes to the overseer Lewellyn in Greene County to pay charges and retrieve his property. Milton conveys to jailor that he was making his way back to owner Paul Cameron in North Carolina.
Creator
W. F. Wade
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
February 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: 1002
Coverage
United States: Alabama (Greene County; Greensboro; Macon County; Tuskegee)
Text Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Paper
Files
Collection
Citation
W. F. Wade, “W. F. Wade Letter, February 5, 1847,” Plantation Letters, accessed October 20, 2026, https://plantationletters.org/items/show/72.