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Box Wade-Hall-OS0001

 Container

Contains 1 Collection or Record:

Pass Written by C. T. Conn for an Enslaved Man Named Nelson, 1857 January 31

 File — Box: Wade-Hall-OS0001, oversize-folder: 4250.03
Scope and Contents 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.
Dates: 1857 January 31
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4250, Wade Hall Collection on Slavery in the United States