Box Wade-Hall-OS0001

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This file contains one letter from John E. Jessup to his brother Isaac Jessup of Greenbush, New York, written while John was stationed in New Orleans, Louisiana, with the Fourth United States Infantry.

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The depositions of Lewis and Mary Ann Chandoin of Virginia regarding two enslaved people, a mother and a daughter named Sucinda and Edy, belonging to a deceased neighbor, Mrs. Elizabeth Mimms. In their depositions, the Chandoins describe their recollections of Edy being taken to Kentucky.

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This collection consists of eleven letters: ten from Joseph Meek and one from C. Haynes to Samuel Logan of Abingdon, Virginia, 19 March 1835-19 March 1837. Most were sent from Livingston, Alabama, but the three earliest were written in Nashville, Tennessee. Meek was evidently a dealer of enslaved persons who served as Logan's agent in Tennessee and Alabama, and most of the letters address his slave trading activities.

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This collection consists of a pass written by C. T. Conn, requesting that Nelson, an enslaved man owned by Conn, be allowed to visit his wife, January 31, 1857. The pass is written in pencil at the bottom of another document, which contains a narrative fragment involving someone named John Smith, who becomes intoxicated and loses a yoke of oxen.

Scope and Contents Several pages from the first issue of The Richmond Defender (February 2005), a monthly newspaper from Richmond, Virginia. The lead article, "Reclaim our Sacred Ground," denounces proposals to build a baseball stadium in Shockoe Bottom, site of the Richmond slave market. Other articles address the African Burial Ground in New York City, the geography of Shockoe Bottom, the Richmond Slave Trail, and a reprint of an eyewitness account of the Richmond...