R. Ogden Letter, December 28, 1847

R. Ogden Letter, December 28, 1847

Antebellum Plantation Life

R. Ogden, representative of Mississippi bank in New Orleans sends further details to Duncan Cameron with regard to purchase of indebted Louisiana plantation in American Parish, Carroll. The plantation is generally described in terms of its animals, negro quarters, crop yield, and opportunity to sell timber to passing steamboats on the Mississippi River. Ogden mentions selling off the "negroes" in families if Cameron is able to buy the land.

R. Ogden

Cameron Family Papers, 1757-1978

Photographed, transcribed, tagged, and shared in this Omeka Collection by Dr. Kevin Oliver, North Carolina State University College of Education

December 28, 1847

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.”

The Southern Historical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Personal correspondence, letter

series: 1.3.3, box: 43, folder: 1023

United States: Louisiana (American Parish; Carroll; New Orleans); Mississippi

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