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Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution Through the Civil War General Editor: Kenneth M A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War General Editor: Kenneth M. Stampp Series J Selections from the Southern Historical Collection, Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Part 6: Mississippi and Arkansas Associate Editor and Guide Compiled by Martin Schipper A microfilm project of UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS OF AMERICA An Imprint of CIS 4520 East-West Highway • Bethesda, MD 20814-3389 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War [microform] Accompanied by printed reel guides, compiled by Martin Schipper. Contents: ser. A. Selections from the South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina (2 pts.) -- [etc.] --ser. E. Selection from the University of Virginia Library (2 pts.) -- -- ser. J. Selections from the Southern Historical Collection Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (pt. 6). 1. Southern States--History--1775–1865--Sources. 2. Slave records--Southern States. 3. Plantation owners--Southern States--Archives. 4. Southern States-- Genealogy. 5. Plantation life--Southern States-- History--19th century--Sources. I. Stampp, Kenneth M. (Kenneth Milton) II. Boehm, Randolph. III. Schipper, Martin Paul. IV. South Caroliniana Library. V. South Carolina Historical Society. VI. Library of Congress. Manuscript Division. VII. Maryland Historical Society. [F213] 975 86-892341 ISBN 1-55655-400-1 (microfilm : ser. J, pt. 6) Compilation© 1991 by University Publications of America. All rights reserved. ISBN 1-55655-400-1. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ............................................................................................................................... v Note on Sources ....................................................................................................................... vii Editorial Note ............................................................................................................................ vii Reel Index Reel 1 William Dunbar Account Book ....................................................................................... 1 Guion Family Papers ..................................................................................................... 2 James Wistar Metcalfe Papers ...................................................................................... 4 Minor Family Papers ...................................................................................................... 4 Reel 2 Minor Family Papers cont. ............................................................................................. 7 Reel 3 John Nevitt Diary ........................................................................................................... 8 Norton, Chilton, and Dameron Family Papers ............................................................... 9 Reel 4 Norton, Chilton, and Dameron Family Papers cont. ...................................................... 11 Reel 5 Norton, Chilton, and Dameron Family Papers cont. ...................................................... 12 Quitman Family Papers ................................................................................................. 12 Reels 6–11 Quitman Family Papers cont. ........................................................................................ 19 Reel 12 Quitman Family Papers cont. ........................................................................................ 22 Richardson and Farrar Family Papers ........................................................................... 23 George W. Sargent Books ............................................................................................. 24 Reels 13–14 George W. Sargent Books cont. .................................................................................... 26 Reel 15 George W. Sargent Books cont. .................................................................................... 26 Frederick Seip Papers ................................................................................................... 27 François Mignon Papers (B. L. C. Wailes Volumes) ..................................................... 28 Reel 16 Everard Green Baker Diaries ........................................................................................ 29 Reel 17 iii Mary Bateman Diary ...................................................................................................... 32 Elizabeth Amis Cameron (Hooper) Blanchard Papers .................................................. 33 William Ethelbert Ervin Diaries ...................................................................................... 36 Reel 18 Pinckney Cotesworth Harrington Papers ...................................................................... 37 James Thomas Harrison Papers ................................................................................... 38 Gustavus A. Henry Papers ............................................................................................ 42 Reel 19 Gustavus A. Henry Papers cont. ................................................................................... 49 Reel 20 Gustavus A. Henry Papers cont. ................................................................................... 49 Chiliab Smith Howe Papers ........................................................................................... 50 Reels 21–22 Chiliab Smith Howe Papers cont. .................................................................................. 56 Reel 23 Chiliab Smith Howe Papers cont. .................................................................................. 57 Hughes Family Papers .................................................................................................. 57 Reel 24 Hughes Family Papers cont. ......................................................................................... 62 Francis Terry Leak Papers ............................................................................................ 63 Reels 25–26 Francis Terry Leak Papers cont. ................................................................................... 65 Reel 27 Francis Terry Leak Papers cont. ................................................................................... 65 James Fontaine Maury Diary ........................................................................................ 65 Randolph and Yates Family Papers .............................................................................. 66 Reel 28 William Ruffin Smith Papers .......................................................................................... 69 Reel 29 William Ruffin Smith Papers cont. ................................................................................. 72 Frank F. Steel Letters .................................................................................................... 72 Whitaker and Snipes Family Papers ............................................................................. 73 James Trooper Armstrong Papers ................................................................................ 75 John L. Trone Letter ...................................................................................................... 78 iv INTRODUCTION The impact of the ante-bellum southern plantations on the lives of their black and white inhabitants, as well as on the political, economic, and cultural life of the South as a whole, is one of the most fascinating and controversial problems of present-day American historical research. Depending upon the labor of slaves who constituted the great majority of the American black population, the plantations were both homes and business enterprises for a white, southern elite. They were the largest, the most commercialized, and on the whole, the most efficient and specialized agricultural enterprises of their day, producing the bulk of the South’s staple crops of tobacco, cotton, sugar, rice, and hemp. Their proprietors were entrepreneurs who aspired to and sometimes, after a generation or two, achieved the status of a cultivated landed aristocracy. Many distinguished themselves not only in agriculture but in the professions, in the military, in government service, and in scientific and cultural endeavors. Planters ambitious to augment their wealth, together with their black slaves, were an important driving force in the economic and political development of new territories and states in the Southwest. Their commodities accounted for more than half the nation’s exports, and the plantations themselves were important markets for the products of northern industry. In short, they played a crucial role in the development of a national market economy. The plantations of the Old South, the white families who owned, operated, and lived on them, and the blacks who toiled on them as slaves for more than two centuries, have been the subjects of numerous historical studies since the pioneering work of Ulrich B. Phillips in the early twentieth century. The literature, highly controversial, has focused on questions such as the evolution and nature of the planter class and its role in shaping the white South’s economy, culture, and values; the conditions experienced by American blacks in slavery; the impact of the “peculiar institution” on their personalities and the degree to which a distinct Afro-American culture developed among
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