Unknown Author, Letter, March 11, 1847

Unknown Author, Letter, March 11, 1847

Antebellum Plantation Life

Unknown author from Mississippi replies to Duncan Cameron regarding the legality of slaves being moved into Mississippi and the fertility of soil in Monroe and Lowndes Counties along Tombigby River. Author offers to board and show Cameron around during a future visit to Columbus or Aberdeen, presumably in search of further land acquisition for the Camerons. Author references a prohibition against moving slaves out of state for sale in the [state] constitution that was abolished.

Unknown Author

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

March 11, 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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English

Personal correspondence, letter

series: 1.3.3, box: 43, folder: 1004

United States: Mississippi (Aberdeen; Columbus; Lowndes County; Monroe County; Washington)

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