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Documents Recording the Enslaved Community of Sweetwater Plantation
A Collection of Primary and Secondary Historical Records Documenting the Enslaved Community at Sweetwater Plantation in Florence.
Sweetwater Mansion is one of the most historically significant sites in Lauderdale County. Construction on the…
Thoughts on Slavery by a former Florence-Lauderdale Slaveholder in 1890 from a letter titled "Florence."
A letter to the editor of the Waukesha Journal, of Waukesha, Wisconsin, of Wednesday, April 12, 1890, written by Mrs. S. B. Bradley, a resident of Waukesha, at the time a visitor in Florence. In her letter Mrs. Bradley gives a brief overview of…
The murder of an enslaved man owned by Thomas Kirkman by Mr. Isaac Vanlier
This is a newspaper article detailing the murder of an enslaved man, owned by Thomas Kirkman, by Isaac Vanlier.
An incident between John Murphy and Dick, enslaved by John Simpson of Florence
This is an article detailing an altercation between Florence merchant John Simpson's overseer, John Murphy, and an enslaved man named Dick. Apparently, Murphy had chastised the wife of Dick, who responded by "using the most insolent and abusive…
"Negro Hiring"
This is a newspaper advertisement announcing that "65 to 70 likely negroes" would be hired out for the year in Leighton, AL.
"Negroes at Auction!"
This is a newspaper notice for the auction of "nine likely negroes" to be held in Florence, AL.
Valuable Sale of Property on Long Credit.
An advertisement by John McKinley for several hundred acres in Lauderdale, Limestone and Madison Counties, Alabama for sale, as well as several dozen slaves with the Lauderdale County properties, for sale.
Note: John McKinley (1780-1852) was a…
Family Residence for Sale.
This is a notice of a sale published by Florence resident and future AL gov. (1865-1867) Robert M. Patton for the sale at the court house in Florence at public auction on December 21, 1859, of the late Mary Saffarrans' house and lot on Seminary…
Abstract of the Statistics and Census of the Subdivision of Lauderdale County, 1860.
This report by census enumerator Peter R. Garner sets out the census statistics for whites, slaves and free blacks in Lauderdale County for the census year of 1860. Garner reported
1831 male slaves
1906 female slaves
13 free male people of…
"Negroes Owned Slaves."
A synthesis of information on free black slave-owners from Prof. Carter G. Woodson's (1875-1950) 1925 book *Free Negro Heads of Families in the United States in 1830, Together with a Brief Treatment of the Free Negro.* Woodson, an African-American…
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