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Box Wade-Hall-OS0001

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Contains 1 Collection or Record:

Joseph Meek and C. Haynes Letters to Samuel Logan, 1835-1837

 File — Box: Wade-Hall-OS0001, oversize-folder: 4250.02
Scope and Contents 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.
Dates: Majority of material found within 1835-1837
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4250, Wade Hall Collection on Slavery in the United States