Frances Cameron Letter, December 28, 1847
Dublin Core
Title
Frances Cameron Letter, December 28, 1847
Subject
Antebellum Plantation Life
Description
A relative in Hillsboro solicits $550 from Duncan Cameron to buy a man servant for assistance in her boarding house. An unnamed female servant is also mentioned. A "hiring day" for purchasing or hiring out slaves is referenced.
Creator
Frances 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
December 28, 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: 1023
Coverage
United States: North Carolina (Hillsboro)
Text Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Paper
Files
Collection
Citation
Frances Cameron, “Frances Cameron Letter, December 28, 1847,” Plantation Letters, accessed October 20, 2026, https://plantationletters.org/items/show/74.