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Monroe County (Ala.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Naf

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Charlie J. Black papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0167
Abstract

Photocopy of Black’s autobiography, “After The Fact: 20/20 Hindsight,” which covers Black’s youth in Beatrice, Monroe County, Alabama, his upbringing, education, teaching career, and political life in Washington. Also, some correspondence and newspaper articles by Black.

Dates: 1985-1987

Gaillard and Hurtel families papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0090
Abstract

Commonplace book, letters, and other documents and items collected by these Mobile and Claiborne, Alabama, families.

Dates: 1838-1885

James Dellet Plantation Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4823
Scope and Contents This collection documents the economic operations of James Dellet's plantation in Claiborne, Monroe County, Alabama, with a particular focus on enslaved labor. It includes:A letter from political figure John Murphy to Dellet (1829) discussing debt repayment likely tied to plantation or labor dealings.A list titled “List of Negroes sent to James Dillet's Plantation,” detailing fifteen enslaved individuals, mostly women, valued at $9,180.A second inventory,...
Dates: 1829

Perdue Hill, Alabama, collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1126
Abstract

This collection contains a miscellany of late nineteenth century items pertaining to Perdue Hill, a community in Monroe County, Alabama.

Dates: 1887-1890

The Register: Official Paper of the Parish of Ouachita, Vol. X, No. 24

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4892
Scope and Contents This collection contains a single issue of The Register, the official newspaper of Ouachita Parish, published in Monroe, Louisiana, on May 10, 1860. The four-page, elephant folio-format newspaper features extensive political reporting and commentary during a critical pre-Civil War moment. The lead story covers the divisive 1860 Democratic National Convention in Charleston, South Carolina, focusing on the dramatic withdrawal of Southern delegates following the...
Dates: 1860