Contents:
Introduction
Alphabetical List
Chronological Index

INTRODUCTION

This guide describes manuscript collections documenting African American history in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections at LSU. It includes the papers of African Americans and their families; oral histories done with African Americans; and other collections that document African American history in one way or another. In the early period, these collections include documentation of slavery, the slave trade, abolitionism, and apologies for slavery. In the modern period, they include collections that document issues like civil rights, integration, and race relations.

Indeed, the experience of African Americans before and during the Civil War is often documented through the papers of others--among them, planters who bought and sold them as slaves and Union soldiers who commented upon them in letters and diaries. LSU has such resources in abundance. Papers of early African Americans themselves are more difficult to find. But Louisiana and the lower Mississippi Valley had a relatively large population of free persons of color, some of whom did leave papers. They worked as artisans in cities like New Orleans or Natchez, or were planters and even slaveholders themselves. LSU's collections of the papers of free persons of color include the papers of William Johnson of Natchez, now famed as a diarist and commentator on Southern mores.

Collections in this guide are listed alphabetically, with a chronological index after the alphabetical listing. Brief descriptions include references to sources for additional information--either the LSU Libraries' catalog, which is accessible through the Internet, or the manuscript card catalog in the Special Collections reading room of Hill Memorial Library. Still additional information on some of these collections can be found in detailed finding aids in the reading room. Increasingly, electronic copies of these finding aids can be found on the World Wide Web site for Special Collections, where you can also find information about using the collections, searching the online catalog remotely, and asking us questions.

Abstract of wages paid to teachers employed in city colored schools, Memphis, Tennessee, 1864 December. 1 item. Location: Misc:A. Abstract signed by T. A. Walker, captain, 63rd United States Colored Infantry, listing wages to teachers in 'colored schools' in Memphis, Tennessee, run by the Freedman's Department during the Union occupation. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3092.

Alabama civil rights publications, 1963, 1965. 2 printed items. Location: Impr. Printed pamphlets: THE TRUTH, Montgomery Junior Chamber of Commerce (1963); and THE STORY OF SELMA, The Selma and Dallas County Chamber of Commerce (1965). For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3780.

Alpha Kappa Alpha Scrapbook, ca. 1972. 1 item. Location. OS:A. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority was the first Greek-letter organization established by African American college women. Scrapbook contains a history of the Sorority, social events and activities, poetry, and brief biographical sketches on current members of the local chapter, Eta Kappa. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 4560.

Alston, Solomon. Estate document, 1809 April 27. 1 item. Location: C:61. Planter of West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Document manumitting a slave according to a clause in Alston's will. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1209.

Anderson, Henry. Letter, 1863. 1 item. Location: Misc. Union soldier during the Civil War, probably from Indiana, stationed at New Madrid, Missouri. Letter to a friend expresses lack of interest in the cause of slavery and a personal revulsion to the Negro. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1427.

Anonymous Account Book (M), 1748. 1 manuscript volume. Location: Vault:1. Account book for Baton Rouge merchant containing entries for mercantile items, loans, and passage and shipping to the West Indies (Jan. 1-March 20, 1748). Mss. 519.

Anonymous Confederate civilian letters, 1863 August 27 and 29. 2 items. Location: Misc. Pages from a letter-diary of a plantation owner, possibly the wife of a Confederate soldier, recording daily activities, local news, plantation work, and slave health. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2997.

Anonymous daybooks, 1856-1858. 2 ms. vols. Location: F:2. Accounts of sales by a free black, probably Oscar Dubreuil, for a general merchandise store in Isle Brevelle, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. In French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 833.

Anonymous diary, 1858-1860. Mss. 3504. See LeBret Diary.

Anonymous letter, [1863] October 4. 1 item. Location: Misc. Letter from a Southern woman who had lived in New York City prior to the Civil War compares the changes that have been made during the Civil War and in particular mentions sermons of abolitionist Dr. Henry Whitney Bellows. She also describes the problems encountered in passing through Fortress Monroe under a flag of truce. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2121.

Anonymous letter, 1851. 1 item. Location: Misc. Letter written from Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, by Augusta (?), to her sister, Mrs. Sarah W. Simpson, Newburyport, Massachusetts. The letter describes the excitement in Alexandria among whites and blacks over Jenny Lind's concert in New Orleans; steamboats and fishing on the Red River; and other local news. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1008.

Anonymous letter, 1852 July 15. 1 item. Location: Misc. Letter written in Washington, D.C., addressed to 'Dear Cousin,' refers to race relations as depicted in Uncle Tom's Cabin, Daniel Webster's performance, and Henry Clay's funeral. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3416.

Anonymous letter, 1867. 1 item. Location: Misc. Letter from a guest at Trenton House [Trenton, New Jersey], commenting on the artistic ability and physical characteristics of the blind Negro musician 'Blind Tom,' after attending a concert given by the pianist. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1533.

Anonymous Planter Ledger, 1848-1849. 1 vol. Location: Misc.:Anon. Plantation ledger, possibly kept by Abraham Lobdell, a West Baton Rouge Parish, La. planter. Ledger records payments for services, goods, and taxes on land. Included are entries recording slave births and deaths, medical bills, gifts to the Protestant Episcopal Church, and goods sold to slaves on credit. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 2905.

Anonymous record book, n.d. 1 ms. vol. Location: Vital statistics and military records together with comments on the condition, location, and extent of such records in several parishes in Louisiana. Included are lists of Louisiana blacks in units of the Union army during the Civil War. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1018.

Anonymous slave list, n.d. 1 item. Anonymous slave list giving cabins, names, color, and ages of slaves. Misc. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 9.

Anti-Episcopal cartoon, n.d. 1 printed item. Location: Impr. Carte-sized cartoon satirizes the Protestant Episcopal Church for its acceptance of Southern attitudes toward slavery. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2897.

Arden, D. D. Letter and abstracts, 1856 May 29. 2 items. Location: Misc:A. Constable of Washington, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Letter from Arden to P. Gurnett appointing him leader of a patrol squad. Attached are laws stating that squads be armed with guns and have the right to enter and examine cabins and residences of slaves and Negroes without prior notice of property owners. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3108.

Asbury Independent Methodist Church. Photographs, 1977. 5 items. Location: Mss. 3177. Church located in White Castle, Louisiana, with a predominantly African American congregation. Photographs depicting the church interior show the church's pastor and assistant pastors; the women's auxiliary organization; the church board of stewardesses; and a baptismal group. Mss. 3177. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3177.

Ashton Plantation auction broadside, 1859 December 8. 1 item. Location: Microfilm 5322. Cotton plantation in East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, consisting of 1,800 acres on Bayou Macon and the Mississippi River. It was owned by Dr. William Webb Wilkins until his death (ca. 1859) after which it was auctioned to help settle his succession. Broadside printed to advertise the public auction of Ashton Plantation, which was ordered by the Fourth Judicial Court of St. James Parish, where Wilkins' estate was probably settled. The item briefly describes the real and personal property to be sold. Also listed on the broadside to be sold are 98 slaves and their ages. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 1, Reel 10. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3729.

Asselin, Hacharie. Papers, 1837-1838. 2 items. Location: Misc. Resident of St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. Receipt for taxes on the land and slaves of H. Asselin and statement of N. Martin for tutoring and incidental expenses to Mrs. Hacharie Asselin. In French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 893.

Avet, Joseph. Document, 1848. 1 item. Location: Misc. Sale (copy) of a slave by Joseph Avet to Lucien Gex, New Orleans, March 27, 1848. In French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 610.

Badin, Norbert, d. 1903. Papers, 1829-1937 (bulk 1870-1890). 695 items, 3 ms. vols., 57 printed vols. Mss. 825. Free black planter from the Cane River settlement of Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, an area that was home to a large community of freedmen. Personal and business papers document Badin's activities as a planter, and include family correspondence, a journal, an account book, and miscellaneous printed items. Some items in French and Spanish. U:97-98, OS:B. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 2, Reel 1. For further information see online catalog. Complete Finding Aid

Banes, Alexander. Alexander and Nannie I. Banes Family Papers, 1888-1990. 1.3 linear ft. Location: U:252, OS:B. African American family of Waco, Texas. Collection includes photographs, correspondence, writings, and legal and financial papers. Some materials document Nannie Bane's work as a teacher in North Texas. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4392.Complete finding (PDF) aid.

Banks, Nathaniel P., 1816-1894. Letterpress copybook, 1863-1864. 1 vol. Location: B:12. Congressman, governor of Massachusetts, and general in command of the Union Gulf Department in the Civil War. Letterpress copybook of official letters written by Banks from his headquarters, Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, during fall 1863 and early winter 1864. Letters comment on civilian life in New Orleans, freed slaves, and the cotton trade. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2326.

Barrow, Bennett H., 1811-1854. Diary, 1833-1846. 1 microfilm reel, 1 typed transcript. Location: W:24. Owner of Highland Plantation, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Diary records daily activities on the plantation, weather conditions, relations with slaves, and personal activities and attitudes. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2978.

Bass-Farrar Family Papers, 1829-1917 (bulk: 1829-1843; 1858-1867) 285 items. Location: R:41. Papers of the Bass, Farrar, and Richardson families from Tensas Parish, La., and vicinity. Includes material on family matters, personal and professional activities, maintenance and overseeing of cotton plantations before and after the Civil War, life along the Mississippi River, life in Civil War Louisiana, and slavery. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 4907. Complete finding aid.

Baton Rouge census document, 1782. 1 item [photocopy]. Location: Misc. Document, 'Etat general des blancs, libres et esclaves dans le district du Baton Rouge pour l'année 1782.' Lists names of heads of families for white, free black, and slave population; professions of white and free black males; number of dwellings; production of indigo, tobacco, rice, corn, and lumber; and number of militiamen. In French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2514.

Baton Rouge Civil War photographs, 1863. 3 items. Three photographs taken in Baton Rouge during the Civil War: an African American male in a wagon pulled by mules; Pike Hall; and Garrison Lane. The first is by McPherson and Oliver, and the other two are probably their work as well. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3272.

Baton Rouge Council on Human Relations. Records, 1965-2000. 1.5 linear feet. Location: W:123-124. Minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and committee records document the activities and concerns of the Baton Rouge Council on Human Relations, a non-profit civic organization created in 1965 that promoted racial desegregation and better race relations by counteracting prejudice and discrimination based on religion or ethnicity. Concerned specifically with the Baton Rouge community. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4813. Complete finding aid

Baze, Felix. Document, 1847. 1 item. Location: Misc. Resident of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Sale of slave by Felix Baze to Robert de St. Clair of St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 537.

Belcher, Fred, 1913-, interviewee. Oral history interview, 1994. 1 sound cassettes (1 hour), transcript (69 p.). Location: L:4700.0721. Fred and Helen Belcher are the son and daughter-in-law of Arthur and Corrie Belcher, founders of the Volunteers of America in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Interview describes the Salvation Army and Volunteers of America with a focus on the community programs and projects including prison ministry, work with the black community, New Orleans maternity home, the role of VOA in adoptions, and Hanson's Disease Center at Carville, Louisiana. They also discuss the racial composition of South, 16th St., role of religion in the VOA, 1920s automobiles, and the flood of 1927. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4700.0721.

Bell, Helena Jones, Letter, 1938 Jan. 28. 1 item. Location: Misc.: B. Southern civilian during the Civil War. Letter describes Union occupation, the loyalty of a former slave, Union soldiers killing a child, and harsh living conditions during and after the war. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 4545.

Bello, Susanne Moreau. Document, 1791. 1 item. Location: Misc. Widow of Donato Bello, an officer in the militia of the post of Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Mortgage of a slave by Susanne M. Bello at the post of Opelousas to Antoine Dubroqua. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 893.

Bennett, George W. Business records, 1858-1917. ca. 5000 items and 202 vols. Location: O:6-13, 127:10, 128:10. General merchant and cotton buyer and dealer in Cheneyville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana; postmaster at Bennettville; and operator of a cotton and sugar cane plantation and plantation store at Theoda Plantation, Rapides Parish. Papers include correspondence, ledgers, daybooks, journals, receipts, leases, agreements, labor contracts with freedmen, invoice books, record books, stock inventories, and other items relating to Bennett's commercial interests. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1010. Complete Finding Aid

Berbice Colony slave records, 1826-1827. 3 items, 1 microfilm reel. Location: OS:B, Mss.Mf:B. Deed of arrangement between owners of three sugar plantations in Berbice (Guyana), and lists of slaves attached to the plantations as of October 20, 1826, citing names, ages, employment, places of birth, and distinguishing marks. Also listed are children born to slave mothers on the plantations (1819-1826) with names, dates of birth, ages, and names of mothers noted. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2934.

Bethel Baptist Church (Natchitoches, Louisiana). Records, 1921-1928. 3 items, 2 vols. Location: B:18. Church with an African American congregation located in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Lists of names of members and amounts of dues paid by members, minutes of church meetings, and an account of the salary paid to the minister. A minute book contains minutes of regular meetings. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 981.

Bills, John H. Family Papers, 1825-1880 (bulk 1855-1861). .15 linear ft. (103 items). Location: A:17. Postmaster, merchant, and major of Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tennessee, who also owned a plantation on Bayou Bartholomew, Louisiana. Bills was the father-in-law of Tennessee and Louisiana legislator Horace M. Polk. Personal and business letters discuss lands in Arkansas, dealings with factors, the cotton trade, national and Louisiana state politics, the Democratic Party, the Civil War Battle of Shiloh, and slave customs and behavior. Correspondents include Daniel Graham, James Walker, and Horace M. Polk. Additional items consist of statements of accounts, receipts, and bills of lading. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2075.

Birge, N. A. Papers, 1861-1865 (bulk 1862-1864). 88 items. Location: U:15, OS:B. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Confederate Military Manuscripts Series B, Reels 2-3. Confederate assistant quartermaster at Monroe Army Post and Shreveport, Louisiana, and agent of the Trans-Mississippi Department at Jefferson, Texas. Papers include requisitions, vouchers, and receipts for clothing, camp equipment, transportation, and medical supplies; copies of official forms, routine correspondence from army personnel, a few letters from soldiers, and a list of conscript Negroes. The impressment of cotton in Texas is discussed in two letters from Lieutenant Colonel W. A. Broadwell, Office of the Cotton Bureau, Headquarters, Trans-Mississippi Department. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 918, 1036. Complete finding aid (PDF).

Bishop, Wm (William). Letter, 1835 May 1. 1 item (4 leaves). Location: Misc:B. Resident of Mobile, Alabama. Letter from Bishop to Agents William McCauly and Nesbit in New Orleans regarding his financial assets and liabilities. Topics include property in Mobile, money owed Bishop, instructions regarding his house and slaves, and Mary Harral's education. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 28.

Black, Norman P. Document, 1861. 1 item [copy]. Location: Misc. Deed of a slave by William Loudon to Norman P. Black, certified by the notary public John A. McHugh. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 893.

Blanchard, Joseph. Document, 1825. 1 item. Location: Misc. Resident of Iberville Parish, Louisiana. Sale (notarized copy) of land and slaves of Joseph Blanchard to Timoleon Boissac. In French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 668.

Blanchard, Newton C. (Newton Crain), 1849-1922. Scrapbooks, 1892-1906. 4 vols. (microfilm copy). Location: Mf. Lawyer from Shreveport, Louisiana; U.S. representative (1881-1894); U.S. senator (1894-1897); and governor of Louisiana (1904-1908). Scrapbooks, containing newspaper clippings with some correspondence and other items, pertain mainly to Blanchard's political career and contain information about Louisiana politics, race relations, yellow fever, and the 1906 fire in the State Capitol. Filed in the manuscript card catalog under Blanchard, Newton Crain, 1849-1922. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2833.

Blanche, Alexander, 1833-1908. Papers, 1851-1914. 81 items (includes 2 vols.). Location: W:48, Vault. Cotton planter of Marydale Plantation, Tensas Parish, Louisiana. Blanche employed or subleased Louisiana State Penitentiary convicts from S. L. James, who leased prisoners directly from the state. Antebellum plantation diary contains notes about cotton farming; slave labor and health; weather; medical remedies; and other plantation affairs. Papers consist of correspondence, tax and payroll receipts, account sheets, and receipts for prisoners. Letters to Blanche from S. L. James include information on plantation supplies and prison laborers. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 2, Reel 11, or Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series I, Part 3, Reel 14. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3342. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Blount, W. M. Account book, 1817-1860. 1 vol. Location: H:14. Record of payment to Blount in settlement of William Pitt Higbee's estate and account. Also recorded are the accounts of Mrs. Amelia Gradinego, Daniel Zeringue, members of the Close family, and others of Petit Bois, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Entries include commodity prices, prices of slaves, taxes, cost of schooling, wages for a laborer, and other expenses incurred by local planters. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 177.

Bond, Priscilla Munnikhuysen, 1838-1869. Papers, 1858-1866. .7 linear ft. (98 items, 3 ms. vols.). Location: B:15. Resident of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, to which she had moved with her parents from Maryland. Priscilla married Howard Bond; she had no children. Two diaries record Bond's daily activities and observations. Subjects covered include plantation life, runaway slaves, social engagements, hypnotism, and Civil War experiences and thoughts, including participation by African American soldiers. Collection also includes correspondence, poems, and photographs. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries Series E, Reel 33. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2155. Complete finding aid (PDF).

Bookter, Alexander. Succession Papers, 1805 May 10. 1 item (9 leaves). Location: Misc:B. Slaveholder of St. Helena Parish, Louisiana. Slaves and other property were seized and sold at public sale after Bookter's death by the sheriff of St. Helena Parish for the payment of Bookter's debts. Affidavits of Ann Liles, William Liles, and John Mink regarding ownership of slaves and other property in the estate of Alexander Bookter, signed by Spanish commandant of Louisiana, Carlos de Grand-Pre. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4514.

Boothby, Charles W. Papers, 1861-1898 (bulk 1861-1874). 1 linear ft. Location: T:19, OS:B. Captain of the 1st Louisiana Regiment, New Orleans Infantry, U.S. Army (unit organized at New Orleans, March 6, 1864, for the defense of New Orleans and the District of La Fourche), customs official, and superintendent of education for New Orleans. Remained in New Orleans after military service, participating in local politics. Personal and military correspondence, printed military orders, and quartermaster's records of the 1st Louisiana Regiment, Co. D, document Civil War and postbellum New Orleans, personal experiences, military engagements, including participation by African American soldiers, and political events during the Civil War. Later papers reflect the local and national political environment during Reconstruction. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4847. Complete finding aid.

Bordelon, Leonce P., Diaries, 1876-1931, 2005. 15 v. Location: J:28. Avoyelles Parish, La., planter. Diaries of Leonce P. Bordelon reflect Louisiana plantation life in rural Avoyelles Parish during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Entries pertain primarily to plantation operations, the effects of climate on those operations, social activities, health and local elections. Some entries in French. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 4952. Complete finding aid.

Bordis & Co. Records, 1866. 3 items. Location: Misc:B. Records include an agreement with freedmen drawn on an official form of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands and two payroll receipts for laborers employed on the Monot Plantation, Assumption Parish, Louisiana. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 965.

Boston Museum playbill, 1861. 1 item. Location: Impr. Abolitionist playbill from the Boston Museum offering The Octoroon, Or Life in Louisiana, and billed as Dion Bourcicault's greatest production. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1558.

Boudar, Thomas. Document, 1845. 1 item. Location: Misc. Resident of New Orleans. Sale (copy) of slaves by Boudar to Marie Louise Paris of St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 25.

Boudousquie, Charles. Document, 1840. 1 item. Location: Misc. Sale of slaves to Charles Roussel, signed by a notary, with seal. In French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 34.

Bourcier, Mrs. Catherine Silly. Document, 1840. 1 item. Location: Misc. 7. Widow of François C. Bourcier. Document signed by the recorder of mortgages in New Orleans, certifying the non-encumbrance of a slave belonging to Madame Catherine Silly. In French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 36.

Bourgeois, Pierre. Family Papers, 1771-1821. 3 items. Location: Misc. Papers include a land transfer (1771), a property sale (1775), and a petition regarding ownership of slaves (1821). Partly in French and in Spanish. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 37.

Bowman, James P. Family Papers, 1806-1926. 2615 items; 100 ms. vols., 6 printed vols. Location: B:19-24; J:18-19:OS:B. Planter of Rosedown Plantation, St. Francisville, Louisiana. Records and papers documenting the administration of Rosedown. Includes papers of William R. Bowman, Episcopal clergyman; and of James P. Bowman, Robert H. Barrow, Eliza Bowman Lyons, Catharine Rucker Turnbull, and Daniel Turnbull. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 4, Reels 8-19. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1372, 1382.

Boyd, David French, 1834-1899. Papers, 1833-1934 (1860-1899). 9 linear ft., 45 v. Location: D:14-21, vault, U:179, Mf:Mss:B, OS:B. Confederate soldier during the Civil War who was later appointed president of the Seminary of Learning at Alexandria, Louisiana.  He was elected president of LSU in 1884 and resigned in 1886. He spent his last years as a professor at LSU. Papers are comprised of correspondence, including correspondence with William T. Sherman; writings about Civil War figures and his Civil War diary; academic papers reflecting his life as an educator; photographs; financial papers; and printed items. Manuscript volumes consist of school notebooks; memoranda; diaries; morning reports from Kentucky Military Institute and Locust Dale Academy; and a minute book of the Demostherman Society. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 40, 99, 794, 890, 893, 1400, 1612, 4234.

Boyer, Albert P., Mrs. Papers and account books, 1885-1907. .8 linear ft. (47 items; 4 vols.). Location: E:51, O:4. African American undertaker of New Orleans. Papers include promissory notes; statements of account; bills for coffins and caskets; cashbooks; a journal reflecting accounts for funeral expenses; and a ledger containing client and burial society accounts. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries Series E, Reel 1. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1258. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Bradfute, Mrs. Theresa S. Document, 1850. 1 item. Location: Misc. Resident of New Orleans. Sale (copy) of a slave, December 5, 1849, by Mrs. Theresa (Stringer) McDonald Jones Bradfute, executor of the estate of Greenbury Ridgely Stringer, to James Stuart Hart. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 409.

Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876. Letter, 1875. 1 item. Location: Misc. Confederate general in command of the Army of Tennessee during the Civil War. In reply to a request for biographical information, Bragg discusses his situation as a sugar planter in Louisiana at the beginning of the Civil War; laments the wartime misfortunes of his 'happy and contented' slaves; and describes his military career. Filed in the manuscript card catalog under Bragg, Braxton. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2537.

Bray, John A. Papers, 1838-1856. 4 items. Location: Misc:B. Cotton planter of 'Cotile,' Rapides Parish, Louisiana. Items include a bill for goods bought by Bray and for freight shipped aboard the steamboat Louisiana; a statement by New Orleans cotton factor A. Miltenberger recording Bray's sale of cotton; and a letter concerning the hire of a 'boy.' Included is a copy of a deed to land and slaves in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 893.

Brent, Rosella Kenner, 1849-1928. Papers, 1902-1915. .1 linear ft. Location: U:210. Daughter of Ascension Parish, Louisiana, planter and politician Duncan Farrar Kenner and wife of Confederate brigadier general Joseph F. Brent. Two narratives of Brent's recollections of Ashland Plantation, including a sketch of slave Henry Hammond. She also recounts an 1862 incident in which her father escaped to Bayou Lafourche upon learning that Union troops were coming to arrest him. Three letters pertain to Rosella Kenner Brent's husband, Brigadier General Joseph L. Brent, C.S.A. A 1910 letter describes General Brent's service in the Confederate army. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 1, Reel 14. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1167, 1822.

Bringier, Louis Amadee, 1827-1897. Papers, 1786-1901. 599 items and 14 vols. Location: T:96-97, F:9, OS:8, Mf. Planter of Ascension Parish, Louisiana, and Confederate officer. Bringier served as commander of the 4th Louisiana Cavalry and the 7th Louisiana Regiment in the Civil War. Papers include correspondence, business papers, military orders and communications, records relating to the administration of Hermitage Plantation in Ascension Parish and Houmas, Burnside, and Bagatelle plantations. Collection includes a letter (1862) telling of a woman killing a federal soldier in New Orleans; also includes papers (1786-1825) relating to the Augustin M. Tureaud family. Some items in French. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 1, Reels 1-2, or Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series I, Part 1, Reel 13. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 43, 139, 544. Complete Finding Aid

Britton, A. C. (Audley Clark), 1822-1894. Family Papers, 1830-1929. 1,760 items, 14 ms. vols. Location: S:119, O:16. Banker and planter of Natchez, Mississippi. Papers include letters and descriptions of the family, plantation, and social lives in Natchez and documents specific to Britton's business activities. Miscellaneous items include photographs, autographs, poems, ledgers, and genealogies. Included are two letters to Eliza Britton written by Jefferson Davis. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 4, Reel 1. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1403, 1710. Complete Finding Aid

Britton, W. A. Record book, 1847. 1 ms. vol. Location: M:19. Agent for the Nautilus Insurance Company of New York, in Natchez, Mississippi. Record book lists the names and beneficiaries of life insurance policyholders. A number of entries pertain to insurance on the lives of slaves. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 3, Reel 18. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 932.

Brooks Read Brer Rabbit Collection, 1950-1991 (bulk: 1950-1959). ca. 26 linear feet. Approximately 500 reel to reel audio recordings, scripts, phonographs, correspondence, and subject files of Brooks Read, Baton Rouge storyteller, journalist, and political observer. Materials relate to Read¹s recorded productions of his original Brer Rabbit stories, as well as a few select Uncle Remus stories of Joel Chandler Harris. For furhter information see online catalog or complete finding aid. Mss. 4476

Brown, James, 1766-1835. Papers, 1764-1829 (bulk 1804-1811). .5 linear ft. Location: U:20, OS:B, F:9. Attorney in New Orleans who became secretary of Louisiana (1804), United States attorney for the Orleans District (1805), U.S. senator from Louisiana (1813-1817, 1819-1823), and minister to France (1823-1829). Collection consists of legal and business papers and correspondence of James Brown. Legal and business papers include documents recording sales of slaves and legal disputes. Most of the letters are from William N. Brown and General James Wilkinson. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 44. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Brown, Orville Hickman, 1806-1881. Speech, 1862 March 10. 1 printed item. Location: Impr. U.S. senator from Illinois. Speech delivered before the United States Senate during debate on a bill to confiscate Confederate property and slaves discusses variouis implications of the bill. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2918.

Brown, Reddin. Papers, 1835-1838. 5 items. Location: Misc:B. Resident of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Papers pertain to the mortgage of land and slaves, and include a land conveyance, an appraiser's certificate, and other legal documents. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 668.

Browning, Samuel R. Letter, 1849 September 4. 1 item. Location: Misc:B. Letter to A. W. Boyd in North Carolina concerning slave- and horse-trading in Louisiana. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4197.

Bryan, James. Document, 1822. 1 item. Location: Misc. Resident of Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Inventory of Bryan's property and slaves. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 668.

Buck-Ellis Family Papers, 1812, 1826-2000. 14 linear ft and 27 volumes. Location: 16:1-14, OS:B, J:27, Vault 1. Ellis family of Tangipahoa Parish, La.; a family of educators, lawyers, and public officials. Ellis family papers (1812, 1826-1987) are comprised almost entirely of personal correspondence relating to daily activities, politics, health, religion, employment, military service, education and travel of five generations. Other material includes financial papers, legal documents, speeches and lectures related to the study of law, printed items, account books, diaries, inventories, family scrapbook and minute books of United Daughters of the Confederacy, Blue Cross Chapter. The Carroll and Martina Ellis Buck papers (1922-2000) consist primarily of personal correspondence from family and friends, but include some professional correspondence, primarily from his legal and public career. Mss. 4820. For additional information see online catalog. Complete finding aid.

Buck, Pearl S., 1892-. Letters, 1968. 2 items. Location: Misc. American writer and philanthropist. Letters to a correspondent in India commenting on the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy; the Black Power demonstration by U.S. athletes at the Mexican Olympic Games; and racial problems in the United States. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2473, 2475.

Burden, Andrew. Document, 1859. 1 item. Location: Misc. Signed document from Lawrence County, Alabama, swearing not to trade with a slave without the owner's permission and not to allow gambling. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3365.

Burgess, West. Agreement, 1804. 1 item. Location: Misc. Agreement outlining conditions for the apprenticeship of a slave with blacksmith Phillip Alts of Maryland. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2186.

Burnett Family Papers, 1778-1862. 6 items. Location: Misc. Papers include bills of sale of slaves; two pieces of private script; one piece of Continental currency for eight dollars; and an 'extra' edition of the Richmond Enquirer, giving the text of Confederate President Jefferson Davis' inaugural address. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 901.

Burnham, B. Letters, 1863 January 4-May 23. 2 items. Location: Misc:B. Union soldier in a regiment stationed at Camp Parapet, near New Orleans, and Fort Butte-a-la-Rose (also called Camp of Fort Burton), Louisiana. His regiment was brought to Louisiana by transport ship. Letters describe the conditions of the regiment's camp, Confederate attacks on transport boats, and a black regiment stationed near Camp Parapet. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3443.Complete finding aid.

Burnham, Howard and Horace. Letters, 1862-1863. 4 items. Howard Burnham, apparently a Union soldier in an Illinois regiment stationed in Arcadia, Missouri. Horace Burnham, apparently a Union soldier in the Marine Hospital in New Orleans in the Civil War. Howard Burnham's two letters (1862) tell of the number of men ill and in hospitals; Horace Burnham writes of accommodations at the Marine Hospital in New Orleans, African Americans, and sanitation facilities. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1181.

Burruss, John C. Family Papers, 1825-1882. 407 items. Location: C:56, Mf. Methodist minister of Virginia and planter of Woodville and Cliffwood Plantation, Pinckneyville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Correspondence and personal and business papers of Burruss, his children, and grandchildren. Included are papers of the family of Edward McGehee of Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Papers relate to the Methodist cy songs and hymns. One group of poems comments on the 1845 presidential election of James K. Polk and George M. Dallas and r families. Some papers document plantation management, including sugarcane growing, rice planting, the construction of a sugar mill, and black laborers. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1514, 2296.

Canaday, Nicholas. Papers,1960-1982 (bulk 1960). 31 items. Location: Misc:C. Professor of English at Louisiana State University and a citizen activist. Photocopies of newspaper clippings and letters about desegregation and the public schools in Baton Rouge and statements and speeches by Canaday as leader of the Citizens' Committee and the Organization for Public Education Now (OPEN). For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4773.

Capell family. Papers, 1816-1931 (bulk: 1840-1880). 1 linear ft; 30 v.. Location: U:299; F:11; OS:C; MssMf:C. Planters and merchants of Amite and Wilkinson Counties in Mississippi. Eli Jackson Capell was a planter of Pleasant Hill Plantation in Amite County and operated a store near Rose Hill, Mississippi. His son Henry Clay was an attorney in Centerville. Business and plantation papers and legal documents comprise the bulk of this collection. These include land deeds; invoices and correspondence regarding shipping cotton; slave bills of sale; diaries, ledgers, and scrapbooks that document daily activities of Pleasant Hill Plantation; and a daybook from the Rose Hill store. Personal correspondence includes two letters from Jefferson Davis and letters of recommendation written for Henry Clay Capell when he was seeking employment with the federal government. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 4, Reel 2. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 56, 257, 1751, 2501, 2597. Complete Finding Aid.

Capell, Eli J. (Eli Jackson), 1814-1888. Family Papers, 1840-1932 (bulk 1886-1900). 1.3 linear ft., 16 v. Location: E:47-48, F:11, OS:C, Mss.Mf:C. Planter of Pleasant Hill Plantation, Amite County, Mississippi. Capell also operated a store near Rose Hill, Mississippi. Correspondence and business records of the Capell family and related Crawford family. Business, plantation, and legal papers include letters, accounts, and invoices with cotton factors and memorandum books of cotton and merchandise sold; labor contracts and laborers’ record book; land deeds; and records from the Rose Hill store. Family correspondence from Crawford relatives (1880-1899) relates geographic, economic, race relations, health, and social conditions in parts of Missouri, Texas, Colorado, Utah, and Montana, and letters to Capell daughters concern news of friends, personal relationships, and social activities (1865-1879). Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 4, Reels 3-5. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 674. Complete Finding Aid

Carondelet, Luis Héctor baron de. Order, 1793 July 2. 1 item. Location: Misc: C. Carondelet was governor of Louisiana (1791-1797) and West Florida (1791-1795). Document from Carondelet to Nicolas Forstall, commandant at Opelousas, letting Forstall know that Josef[?] de la Pena has presented himself in Carondelet's tribunal with a petition and an account concerning payment and placement of a borrowed slave named Pedro. Others mentioned in the document are Nicolas Maria Vidal and Pedro Pedesclaux. In Spanish. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4893.

Carroll, Thomas. Receipt, 1858. 1 item [photostatic copy]. Location: Misc. Receipt for payment for slaves by Carroll, signed by Martin Tally at Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1108.

Carson, William Waller. Family records, 1845-1930. 1 vol. Location: F:23. Residents of Tennessee and Mississippi. Family records include genealogical listings, biographical and autobiographical sketches, and correspondence, all pertaining to the history of the Carson and related Waller, Green, Hutchins, and other families. Included is information about plantation life, slavery, and the Civil War. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2919.

Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus), 1793-1863. Family Papers, 1826-1864. 67 items, 2 ms. vols. Location: U:109, Vault. Physician of Natchez, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Cartwright was a Confederate army physician, and at one time a professor of diseases of the Negro in the Medical Department of the University of Louisiana. Papers include correspondence, photoprints, and a European travel diary. Correspondence relates to politics, slavery, and education in the South, including letters from Jefferson Davis and other prominent individuals. Included is a treatise on 'camp dysentery' written by Cartwright. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2471, 2499.

Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus), 1793-1863. Letter, 1849 August 8. 2 items. Location: Misc. Physician of Natchez, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Cartwright was a Confederate army physician, and at one time a professor of diseases of the Negro in the Medical Department of the University of Louisiana. Letter to Doctor Q. A. B. Quesenbery discusses the treatment and prevention of cholera. Filed in the manuscript card catalog under Cartwright, Samuel Adolphus. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3234.

Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus), 1793-1863. Prescription, 1833. 1 item. Location: Misc. Physician of Natchez, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Cartwright was a Confederate army physician, and at one time a professor of diseases of the Negro in the Medical Department of the University of Louisiana. Prescription for cholera. Filed in the manuscript card catalog under Cartwright, Samuel A., 1793-1863. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 672.

Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943. Letter: to Harry Ittner, 1933 March 8. 1 item. Location: Vault. African American educator and agricultural scientist, and director of the Research and Experiment Station at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Letter by Carver to Ittner discusses Ittner's studies at Antioch College (Ohio), and comments on Carver's interests in music, motion pictures, and theater. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3412.

Causey, R. J. Correspondence, 1863 September 25-November 19. 4 items. Location: Misc. Letters from Causey's wife comment on a black riot near Tickfaw, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana; Confederate farm taxes; and transportation difficulties of sending cotton to Baton Rouge. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2133.

Chelette, Atala. Family Papers, 1819-1919 (bulk 1841-1899). 160 items. Location: B:18. Free black family of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Papers include wills, receipts, and tax returns. Included is a copy of the act of manumission (1819) of Angelique, a free black woman associated with the Chelette family. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries Series E, Reel 6. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 979. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Civil War soldiers letters, 1863. 6 items. Location: Misc. Sam White and F. A. Belcher, Union soldiers stationed in Louisiana during the Civil War. Letters to their families describe their sea voyage to New Orleans and encampments at Baton Rouge, Algiers, and Brashear City (now Morgan City), Louisiana. Other topics include contraband slaves as laborers and as military recruits; and medical care. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3188.

Claiborne, William C. C. (William Charles Cole), 1775-1817. Document, 1811 April 25. 1 item. Location: OS:C. First governor of Louisiana. Claiborne was governor of the Territory of Mississippi (1801). He was appointed to receive Louisiana from France (1803) and served as governor of the Territory of Orleans and as governor of Louisiana. Act of the Louisiana Legislative Council and of the House of Representatives providing for the payment of slaves killed and executed on account of the late insurrection in the Territory of Orleans and for dwelling houses burned by Negroes. In French and English. Filed in the manuscript card catalog under Claiborne, William C. C. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 965.

Clapp, Thomas. Document, 1841. 1 item. Location: Misc. Certification by the recorder of mortgages for New Orleans that there is no mortgage in Clapp's name recorded against a Negro woman named Maria. For further information see manuscript card catalog.Mss. 72.

Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846. Letter, 1842 July 16. 1 item. Location: Misc. English abolitionist. Clarkson mentions that his book addressed to the clergy of the United States was published only for America and is recognized as one of his best works. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2425.

Clifton, Elizabeth. Negroes' account for cotton, 1840 March 16. 1 item. Location: Misc:C. Document drawn up by John Bell, acting Justice of the Peace, Dallas County, Alabama, on behalf of Elizabeth Clifton listing names and money paid to 'negroes' by the estate of William C. Clifton for cotton raised on their own 'patches'. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3666.

Colbert, Elenor Robinson, 1940-, interviewee. Oral history interview, 1993. 1 sound cassette (45 minutes), Index (2 pages). Location: L:4700.222. Resident of Four Corners, an unincorporated community south of Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. Colbert's great-grandmother was a slave. Colbert describes working in cane fields as a child; customs of family gatherings, the burial of umbilical cords of newborns, and cutting hair on Good Friday; the challenges of plantation life; christening and baptism traditions; and natural remedies. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4700.222.

Committee of the National Labor Convention Memorial, 1871 January 19. 1 printed item, 4 p.; 23 cm. Location: E:Impr. Memorial requesting the appointment by Congress of a commission to investigate conditions of black laborers in the South and listing crimes and injustices committed against them. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2792.

Concordia Parish inquest case file, 1857. 4 items [transcriptions]. Location: Misc. Transcription by the Historical Records Survey of case papers in the courthouse in Vidalia, Louisiana, for an inquest in the death of the slave Samuel at Forest Home Plantation. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2032.

Confederate song sheet, 1861. 1 item. Location: Impr. The Southern Wagon, printed on an unused leaf of a blank receipt book, used for the sale of slaves in the 1850s. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2752.

Conner, Lemuel Parker, 1827-1891. Family Papers, 1810-1953, n.d. 12.5 linear feet and 22 ms. vols. Location: A:, 98:C, OS:C, Vault, J:24. Planter from Natchez, Mississippi. Papers include correspondence, cotton statements, legal and business papers (including slave testimony in an alleged slave uprising, 1861), plantation records, and Civil War papers of Confederate soldiers and civilians, family letters from LSU and Smith College, and First Presbyterian Church (Natchez) records. Also included are papers of Levin R. Marshall, the Sessions family, and Henry R. Chotard; 256 pieces of published sheet music (1824-1883); a minstrel show program (1879); and miscellaneous programs of Natchez concerts and music recitals. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 3, Reels 14-18. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 81, 1403, etc. Complete finding aid

Conrad, Archelus M. Papers, 1861-1890 (bulk 1861-1865). ca. 100 items. Location: E:41, OS:C. Union officer in command of a Corps d'Afrique Engineers company in Louisiana in the Civil War. Papers include military orders, muster papers, charges of military crimes, and other items relating to the 97th Engineer Regiment. It also includes a carte-de-visite showing Conrad in New Orleans. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4126.Complete finding aid.

Consolidated Association of Planters of Louisiana. Papers, 1791-1912 (bulk 1827-1882). 9,666 items, 85 vols. Location: U:27-44, F:12-14, OS:C. Land bank of sugar planters designed to aid planters in securing better credit facilities. Financial records including banking papers; account books; legal documents; land and slave sales; diaries; letter books; plantation records; and correspondence. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 82.

Constitutional Convention. Broadside, 1868. 1 item [photographic reproduction]. Location: OS:C. Broadside has extracts from the reconstructed Louisiana constitution on civil rights and public education, and includes vignette portraits of black legislators and members of the Convention. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3023.

Contraband slaves cartoon, 1862 ca., n.d. 1 item. Location: Impr. Anonymous cartoon shows contraband slaves fleeing from their master to the sanctuary of Fort Monroe, Virginia. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3032.

Cooley, E. C., and Robert J. Document, 1867. 1 item. Location: Misc. Labor contract titled Agreement With Freedmen for the working of the Cooley Plantation, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 149.

Cotton, Elijah B. Slave bills of sale, 1856. 2 items. Location: Misc:C. Copies of acts of conveyance of slaves to Elijah B. Cotton of Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, by John C. Razan of Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, and Daniel Blum of Ascension Parish. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 893.

Council of Trade and Plantations. Letterbook, 1700-1721. 1 ms. vol. (31 pages). Location: M:21. British colonial trade council. Volume containing letters, memorials, and reports to the Lords Commissioners of the council. Included are entries concerning the logwood cutters of the Campeche peninsula, the African slave trade, and colonial manufacturing. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 680.

Cox, Owen B. Papers, 1844-1882, n.d. 21 items. Location: Mf. Planter and merchant of Clinton and Briarfield, Mississippi. Papers include slave sale documents; family letters; two Jefferson Davis documents; and a contract (1879) and a letter (1882), both pertaining to the management of Briarfield Plantation. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3041.

Crawford, David d. 1834. Letters, 1834 [183?]. 2 items. Location: Misc:C. Lawyer of Mobile and Mount Pleasant, Alabama. Letters written to his wife and mother discuss his poor state of health; his commitment to his profession; and the behavior of slaves, particularly the misconduct of a female slave resulting in the need to dispose of her. Also included are bank records of the Bank of Mobile falsified in order to cover an accounting error. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3666.

Croom Family Bills of Sale and Currency, 1825, 1839, 1863. 3 items. Location: Misc: C and Vault:4. Two slave bills of sale and one piece of 1863 Louisiana currency. The first bill of sale is dated 14 Dec. 1825, and regards the sale of a slave named Solomon to Isaac Croom for $475.00. The second bill of sale, dated 2 Sept. 1839, regards the sale of a slave named Lucy by Charles Croom to Isaac Croom for $667.00. The currency is one $20 bill, No. 1329, issued by the state of Louisiana, Shreveport, March 10, 1863. Signatures appear on the bill as well. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4883.

Cucullu, Simon. Papers, 1853. 3 items. Location: Misc:C. Papers documenting the sale at auction of land and slaves of the succession of Simon Cucullu to Joseph and M. Cucullu, including certificates of the sale and mortgage of the property. In French. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 537.

Cutrer, Hiram A. Slave bill of sale, 1846. 1 item (2 leaves). Location: Misc:C. Bill of sale recording the sale of slaves from Hiram A. Cutrer of Livingston Parish, Louisiana, to Horace Tucker, also of Livingston Parish. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 537.

Cutts, James Madison, 1837-1903. Letter, 1867. 1 item. Location: Misc. Brevet lieutenant colonel in the 20th U.S. Infantry assigned to Philip Sheridan's 5th Military District, which included Louisiana. He was commander of the post at Shreveport, La. Letter from Cutts, Shreveport, La., to Thomas Ewing, former brigadier general in the U.S. Army. Cutts reports his view that the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 effectively turned the country over to "the black man" and the necessity of military occupation by a larger force. For further information see online catalog. Mss 4856.

Dalferes, Antonio. Papers, 1822-1838. 24 items. Location: C:72. Resident of Assumption Parish, Louisiana. Much of the collection consists of sales and transfers of land and slaves between Dalferes and other residents of Assumption Parish. There are also papers relating to the estates of S. Navarro and Francisco Machado. Partly in Spanish. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 552.

Dana, Charles B. Family Papers, 1799-1949 (bulk 1823-1880). 700 items, 59 vols. Location: B:71-72, OS:D, O:2. Protestant Episcopal minister of Alexandria, Virginia, Port Gibson, Mississippi, and in 1866 he became rector of Trinity Church in Natchez, Mississippi, where he remained until his death. Papers include correspondence, sermons, essays, maps, photographs, and other papers relating to religious activities, family matters, and local events. Manuscript volumes are comprised of a diary, cashbooks, registers, sermons, and notebooks. A letter of S. A. Kimball of Concord, New Hampshire discusses the abolitionist movement and members of the Colonization Society (1836). For further information see online catalog. Mss. 972, 973.

Daquin, Louis. Document, 1835. 1 item. Location: Misc. Sale (notarized copy) of slaves of the Daquin heirs of New Orleans to August Reggio of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. In French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 94.

Dardenne, Eugenie. Land document, 1856 March 24. 1 item (4 leaves). Location: Misc:D. Land document recording the sale of slaves and one-third of the ownership of Dardenne Plantation, a sugar plantation in Iberville Parish, Louisiana. The sale was made by Eugenie Dardenne to John A. Dardenne. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 668.

Davis, Henry Winter, 1817-1865. Letters, 1852-1866, n.d. 55 items [photocopies]. Location: U:181. American statesman and orator, and U.S. representative from Maryland (1856-1865). Letters to state and national political figures relate to the American Party, particularly in Maryland; Republican Party politics; the presidential elections of 1856 and 1860; and attitudes toward slavery and emancipation. Post-Civil War letters refer to the treatment of Confederate sympathizers. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2392, 2408.

Davis, Jefferson. See: Jefferson Davis family correspondence collection.

Davis, Joseph M., Jr., interviewee. Oral history interview, 1993. 1 sound cassette (45 minutes), Index (4 pages). Location: L:4700.232. Resident of Four Corners, a community south of Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, who owned a trucking company and was a police juror for 20 years. Davis describes working as a child; his college career; involvement in his family trucking business, and challenges of breaking into the white dominated trucking industry; federal programs for minorities; his political involvement; and his family values. Davis also discusses the history of South Coast Plantation and his parents' employment there; plantation life in the 1950s and 1960s; and sugarcane. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4700.221.

Davis, Pliny Earl. Papers, 1842-1896. 21 items. Location: Misc:D, OS:D. Notary of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Personal papers include a family register and two letters from Davis to his son relating family matters, his displeasure over his son rejoining the army, scarcity and prices of goods, and his 'negroes' running away. Business papers of Davis contain legal documents pertaining to the transfer of property, a promissory note, the resulting instrument of protest when the note was not honored, and tax notices. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3666.

Dawkins, Guilford. Petition, 1853 January 6. 1 item (2 leaves). Location: Misc:D. Plantation overseer of Madison Parish, Louisiana. Petition to the 10th Judicial District Court, Madison Parish, for redress regarding an injury inflicted on Dawkins by Dudley, a slave. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4515.

Day of Jubelo Cartoon, 1865. 1 printed item. Location: E:69. Carte-sized cartoon drawn by E. B. Bensell and printed in Philadelphia depicting emancipated slaves celebrating freedom in their former master's house. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3644.

Dayroll of cotton pickers, 1864 October 31. 1 item. Location: Misc:D. Detailed roster listing names and wages of freedmen put to work picking cotton on President Island, Mississippi, during the Civil War. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3666.

De Bordes Family Papers, 1765-1822. 106 items. Location: B:13, OS:D, Mf. Papers relating to land holdings and the operation of sugar and coffee plantations in Haiti and Santo Domingo; slave insurrections and the life of refugees from them in New Orleans; and decisions and decrees relating to trade, commerce, and emigration. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2246.

DeBlanc, Charles. Slave bills of sale and memorandum, 1835-1854. 3 items. Location: Misc:D. French-speaking slave owner of New Orleans. Papers include slave bills of sale of Charles DeBlanc to Auguste and Octave Reggio of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, and an undated memorandum to Luis DeBlanc. Slave bills of sale in French, memorandum in Spanish. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 100.

DeClouet, Alexandre (Alexandre Etienne), 1812-1890. Family Papers, 1787-1905 (bulk 1855-1888). 1.2 linear ft. (150 items, 37 vols.). Location: U:181, J:5. Sugar planter, Confederate congressman, and state senator from St. Martin Parish, Louisiana. Beginning in the 1860s, DeClouet was active in the White League, an organization opposed to rights for black freedmen. Collection includes financial papers, legal documents, political papers, and correspondence. Financial records of Alexandre DeClouet and his son Paul document plantation management and labor issues. Political papers include White League materials. Some items in French. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 3, Reels 5-6. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 74, 258, 461, 756.Complete finding aid.

Degruy, P. H. O. Document, 1844. 1 item. Location: Misc. Resident of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Sale (notarized copy) of slaves to Madame Charles H. Delery of New Orleans. In French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 104.

Denman, Rolph M. Document, 1854. 1 item. Location: Misc. 7. Resident of New Orleans. Document giving power of attorney to I. Marsh Denman for the sale of a slave to A. Borron. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 109.

Dennis, William. Slave bill of sale, 1856 December 18. 1 item. Location: Misc:D. Resident of St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, and administrator of the estate of his father, William Dennis, Sr. Slave bill of sale documents the transfer of a slave named Henry from the estate of William Dennis, Sr., to Mrs. Lucy Morgan (nee Dennis), widow of Egbert Morgan, for $1,405. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3659.

Dent, Lewis. Report, 1863 June 1. 1 item. Location: Misc:D. Lessee of Horace Tibbetts' plantation in East Carroll Parish, Louisiana. The U.S. Commission was a U.S. Treasury Department agency organized prior to the Freedmen's Bureau to handle the leasing of abandoned plantations during the Civil War. Report prepared by Dent for the U.S. Commission reports the number of tillable acres on the plantation; the number, age, and sex of blacks employed; livestock and equipment; and names of whites residing on the plantation. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1418.

Derouen, Eloi Joseph. Notebook, 1844-1896, 1914. 1 ms. vol. on microfilm. Location: Mf. Cattleman of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. Notebook containing genealogical data for the Derouen and Primeaux families; records of cattle markings and sales; a register of births of slaves; and a few daybook entries of accounts. In French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1953.

Desobry, Louis. Partnership agreement and amnesty oath, 1854-1865. 2 items. Location: Misc:D. Sugar planter of Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, Louisiana. Articles of agreement establishing a partnership for the ownership and operation of Irion Plantation, a sugar plantation near Plaquemine. The terms of the sale of land and slaves state that the partnership will be called 'Desobry's and Company.' Included is an oath of amnesty and allegiance to the United States signed by Louis Desobry (1865). For further information see online catalog. Mss. 893.

Dewees, John. Family Papers, 1789, 1817-1954, n.d. 593 items; 4 ms. vols. Location: W:47, M:22, OS:D. Planter of Charleston, South Carolina, and later of Eunice, Louisiana. Papers include correspondence; land and slave sale documents; tax receipts; stocks and bonds; court decisions; wills; deeds; estate and property settlements; and photos, especially pre-Civil War and Reconstruction period. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3089.

Dodard, Mrs. Jean. Document, 1832. 1 item. Location: Misc. Resident of Bordeaux, France. Notarized document of Mrs. Jean Dodard giving power of attorney to John Garnier to sell slaves. In French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 118.

Doire, Robert. Document, 1783. 1 item [photostat]. Location: Misc. Resident of New Orleans. Notarized document by Doire granting liberty to his slave, Santiago Durham. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 778.

Donato, Soulongue Adolphe. Letter, 1883 December 16. 1 item. Location: Misc. Resident of Opelousas, Louisiana, and servant to U.S. Representative Edward Taylor Lewis. Letter written from Washington, D.C., describes his trip with Lewis from Louisiana to Washington, problems encountered by blacks in travel and housing, the city of Washington, and his own social life. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2946.

Dreger, Ralph Mason Papers, 1959-1974. 2 linear feet. Location 53, OS:D. Ralph Dreger, a Methodist minister and Louisiana State University professor, was extremely active in civil rights causes throughout the South. The collection consists of manuscripts, notes, articles, and correspondence pertaining to Dr. Ralph Dreger’s research. Letters to and from authors and researchers discuss publications, request information, and ask or grant permission for quotations. Also included are journal articles pertaining to Dreger’s research, as well as his own review, “Comparative Psychological Studies of Negroes and Whites in the United States: 1959-1965”. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3900. Complete finding aid (PDF)

Duclos family. Records, 1855-1876. 3 ms. vols. Location: F:17. French-speaking African American family in New Orleans that operated a furniture store and a liquor shop. Two volumes contain accounts for the furniture and liquor stores; a third volume contains miscellaneous notes. There is also a photograph of a black woman. In French. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 689.

Dunbar, Archibald. Document, 1836. 1 item. Location: Misc. Resident of Adams County, Mississippi. Sale (notarized) of slaves formerly attached to Ashwood Plantation by Archibald Dunbar to Peter M. and Joseph H. Lapice. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 668.

Dunbar, Joseph. Document, 1812. 1 item. Location: Misc. Statements of witnesses in the case of Joseph Dunbar vs. Caleb Weeks, Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, regarding the purchase of slaves. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 133.

Duncan, Stephen, 1787-1867. Family Papers, 1817-1877. 158 items, 2 ms. vols. Location: S:120. Planter and banker of Natchez, Mississippi. Duncan plantations included L'Argent, Auburn, Camperdown, Carlisle, Duncan, Duncannon, Duncansby, Ellisle, Homochitto, Middlesex, Oakley, Rescue, Reserve, and Attakapas. Correspondence includes letters from friends and family concerning social, political, and economic problems of Reconstruction. Papers include legal documents, bills, and receipts. A daybook includes lists of slaves present at Homochitto Plantation. Included is a diary of W. P. Duncan, son of Stephen Duncan, Jr., describing his travels in France and Italy. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 4, Reel 5. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1403, 1431, 1551, 1595, 1793.

Dupre and Metoyer and Company. Account book, 1830-1837, 1873. 1 vol. Location: F:15. General merchandise store in Isle Brevelle, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, owned by Emanuel Dupre and J. B. D. Metoyer, free blacks. Inventory of stock of Dupre and Metoyer and Company. An entry in 1873 records a mortgage due to Oscar Dubreuil. Copies of songs and drawings by Leatter Dupre appear in the back of the book. In French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 834.

Dupre, Antoine. Succession Papers, 1810-1820. 6 items. Location: H:23. Farmer and resident of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Bound case papers and documents filed in probate proceedings for Dupre including an inventory and appraisal of the estate; a record of sale at public auction of land, slaves, and other properties; and receipt of remaining assets by his widow. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 965.

Dupre, Paul J. Account books, 1904-1942. 6 vols. Location: F:15. African American storekeeper of Isle Brevelle, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. General ledgers of cash sales and accounts kept by Dupre. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 835, 841.

Durieux, Caroline, 1896-. Oral history interview, 1975. 1 sound cassette (1 hour), Transcript (28 pages). Location: L:4700.13. Lithographer, painter, and educator of Baton Rouge. Durieux was a professor emeritus of graphic arts at LSU and was involved with literary and artistic programs sponsored by the Works Progress Administration. Interview concerns Durieux's work with the W.P.A. Federal Art Project in Louisiana and New Orleans during the 1930s. Topics include the purpose, importance, and effect of the project and the work of African American artists. Durieux also discusses the effect of the Great Depression on art and artists; federal support for artists, and the success of the W.P.A. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4700.13.

East Feliciana Parish collection, 1819-1867 (bulk 1826-1857). 50 items. Location: D:90. Financial papers are primarily statements of merchant accounts. Legal papers include citations, indictments, affidavits, and correspondence for civil and criminal cases heard at the courthouse in Clinton, Louisiana. Of special interest are documents relating to the trial of two slaves for arson and to a case against Centenary College in Jackson, Louisiana, for payment owed to a Reverend William B. Lacy. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3599.

Edmands, John Wiley, 1809-1877. Letter, 1860 November 8. 1 item. Location: Misc. U.S. representative from Massachusetts (1853-1855). Letter to William Kellogg (possibly Congressman Kellogg of Illinois) expressing the Northern Republican party position on slavery just after the election of Abraham Lincoln. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1754.

Edmonds, Anne Marie Nugent. Papers, 1890-1955. 10 items. Location: Vault:5 and Mss. Mf: E. Anne Marie Nugent Edmonds was also known as Nannie Nugent and by her pen name, Nathaniel Nugent. Her papers consist of seven short literary manuscripts whose topics focus on the Old South and were based upon Edmond's own experiences before, during, and after the Civil War. A typed excerpt from "Reminiscence, 1832, On a Louisiana Plantation" centers on the author's grandfather, Judge Seth Lewis, and gives some family history as well as an examination of local customs. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4942.

Ellis, E. John (Ezekial John), Diary, 1862-1865. 3 items, 2 volumes. Location: C:97, H:14. Memoirs and diary related to the Civil War activities of Ezekiel John Ellis include a political speech and incomplete work of fiction and are accompanied by a transcript, research manuscript and photograph. Diary recounts his participation in fighting up to his capture at Missionary Ridge and his subsequent imprisonment at Johnson's Island. He comments on African-American soldiers and makes reference to literature and poetry. For additional information see online catalog. Mss. 2795. Complete finding aid.

Ellis, Ezekiel Park, 1807-1884. Family Papers, 1812-1914 (bulk 1839-1866). 180 items; 5 printed. vols. Location: U:66. Resident of Amite, Louisiana, judge, and a member of the Louisiana legislature. His sons, all lawyers, attended Centenary College in Jackson, Louisiana, and served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. Correspondence includes letters to Ellis' wife during travel to court houses in the Florida parishes, and letters from his sons at college and law school (1850s). The bulk of the correspondence consists of Civil War letters from Ellis' sons. The collection includes typescripts of a few slave bills of sale, invitations, certificates, newspaper clippings, and memoranda. Printed volumes include catalogs of Centenary College. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Confederate Military Manuscripts Series B, Reel 5. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 663. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Embree, Joseph. Family Papers, 1826-1884. .88 linear ft. (805 items, 1 vol.). Location: E:19-20. Cotton planter near Woodville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, and soldier in the Confederate army. Papers include letters, account statements of cotton brokers, land deeds, contracts, slave bills, receipts, and documents related to education in Wilkinson County. Includes a printed list of the 1879 Democratic state ticket. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 2, Reels 10-11. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 693.

Ende, Jacques F. de. Document, 1837 May 5. 1 item. Location: Misc. Certification of a deposition at New Orleans given by Jacques F. de Ende, reporting his slave, Sep, had run away from his Avoyelles Parish plantation, and offering a reward of fifty dollars for his return. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 537.

Escoffier, François. Document, 1840. 1 item. Location: Misc. Free man of color. Petition of François Escoffier to the president and members of the council of the second municipality of New Orleans for the remission of a fine imposed upon him for selling liquor to a slave. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 137.

Evans, J. Bruce, Papers, 1614-2005 (bulk 1930-1990). 31.5 linear ft., 26 v. Location: 92:82-109; OS:E; J:34-35; Vault:1. Baptist minister, religious counselor and civil rights activist. Correspondence, church records, sermons, workshop materials, printed items, photographs and audio tapes reflect Evans’s ministerial career in Baton Rouge, La., at First Baptist Church and Fellowship Church. Personal papers [some items in French], business records and genealogical material document the ancestry of Evans and his wife, Anita Louise, and provide insight into the personal lives of family members. Papers also furnish histories of Bienville and Natchitoches parishes and Saline, La., and relate to Caroline Dormon Nature Preserve and to Dormon’s activities as a naturalist. For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 4664. Complete finding aid (PDF)

Everett, Alexander H. Letter, 1841. 1 item. Location: Misc. President of Jefferson College, St. James Parish, Louisiana. Draft of a letter of Alexander Everett to Daniel Webster, secretary of state, concerns published remarks by Mr. Trist, American consul at Havana, and the general conduct of affairs of a prior mission to Havana for a conference regarding the slave trade. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 140.

Fair, James. Papers, 1833-1838. 4 items. Location: Misc:F. Owner of Grove Hill Plantation in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Papers pertain to Fair's mortgage of Grove Hill and its slaves. Included is a copy of the sale of the plantation by Mrs. Maria Jones to Fair and an appraiser's certificate. There is also a questionnaire for stockholders of Citizens' Bank of Louisiana. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 668.

Farrar, B.G. Papers, 1863-1870 (bulk: 1863-1865). 13 items. Location: Misc:F. Brevet Brigadier General Bernard G. Farrar, Colonel of the 6th U.S. Colored Artillery (Heavy). Letters, orders, and affadavits relate to recruiting African-American soldiers, anticipated attacks, and plundering of plantations in the Natchez and Vidalia area. An 1870 letter to Farrar from J.W. Alfvord, General Superintendent of Education, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands relates to the education of the freedmen. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4764.

Favret, Joseph, 1873. Oral history interview, 1974. Index (2 pages), 3 sound cassettes (1.75 hours). Location: L:4700.15. New Orleans native, centenarian, and a veteran of the Spanish American War. Favret discusses his experiences in Cuba during the Spanish American War and the sinking of the Maine. He also recalls the New Orleans race riot of 1900 and Robert Charles; and mentions New Orleans mayor Robert S. Maestri. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4700.15.

Featherston, Richard. Document, 1849. 1 item. Location: Misc. Resident of Madison Parish, Louisiana. Sale (notarized copy) of land and slaves of Richard Featherston to Henry R. W. Hill of New Orleans. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 668.

Finnall, William. Document, n.d. 1 item. Location: Misc. Resident of New Orleans. Contract (incomplete) between William Finnall and George Ann Botts and Abner Robinson regarding the posting of slaves as security for a bond. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 145.

Fisher, Alice Risley. Family Papers, 1856-1939 (bulk: 1860-1930). 174 items; 7 volumes; 2 reels. Location: 9:29, OS:F; Mss.Mf:F. The family papers and photographs of Phoebe Farmer, Alice Risley, and Sam Risley include material on life in Civil War Louisiana(especially New Iberia and New Orleans), participation in Grand Army of the Republic and National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War, poetry, education, and Civil War hospitals. Within the collection are a Civil War diary of Alice Risley of her life in New Orleans and 91 period photographs. For more information, see online catalog. Mss. 2269, 4901. Complete finding aid (PDF)

Fisk, Clinton B., 1828-1890. Letter, 1865. 1 item. Location: Misc. Union general in the Civil War and assistaLocation: Misc.:F. Letter by James Fraly written from New Orleans to Mary S. Fraley in Hamburg, Tennessee, concerns clear title to the ownership of a slave. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3802.

Freedmen's Bureau circular, 1865 July 14. 1 printed vol. Location: Impr. Photostatic copy of printed circular from Headquarters, Bureent, 1839. 1 item. Location: Misc. Resident of New Orleans. Sale of slaves (notarized copy) of Theophilus Freeman to François A. Tete of Assumption Parish, Louisiana. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 537.

Frellsen, Henry, ca. 1800-1884. Diary, 1878-1884. 1 vol. (101 pages). Location: G:17. Native of Denmark who fought in the Greek War of Independence (1824) and moved to Louisiana (ca. 1840). He was the Danish Consul in New Orleans, a cotton factor, and the owner of Fairview Plantation, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. Entries document Frellsen's operation of Fairview Plantation. Weekly reports detail crop and weather conditions; record maintenance of a sugarhouse, machinery, and levees; and list farmhands (including children) and their wages. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3497

French-Clarke Family Papers, 1809-1861 (bulk: 1830-1920). 1.3 linear feet, 16 m.s. volumes. Location: 1:32-35, OS:F, 98:F. Largely composed of correspondence between members of the French family of Baton Rouge and extended family regarding Baton Rouge, family news, health, and genealogy. Legal documents include bills of sale for slaves, land documents, wills of the French and Clarke families. Personal financial records, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings of current events, especially pertaining to the opening of the state capital and LSU campus life in the early 1900s. Ledgers and printed items relate to Julia Edwards Clarke and her husband William's employment at the Louisiana State School for the Blind. Complete Finding Aid.

Fuqua, James O. (James Overton). Papers, 1857-1878. 118 items, 1 ms. vol. Location: Misc:F, UU:67. Slaveholder, property owner, and Confederate soldier of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. He was a member of the Baton Rouge law firm Fuqua and Callahan. His son, Henry Luce Fuqua, served as governor of Louisiana (1924-1926). Financial papers including receipts for Fuqua's purchase of slaves and receipts for state, parish, and Baton Rouge municipal taxes paid by Mrs. Fuqua. Papers of the law firm Fuqua and Callahan pertain to legal cases and other business matters. A letterpress copybook records Fuqua's legal correspondence. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 893, 1438.

Furber, Sarah. Letters, 1843, 1844. 2 items [photocopies]. Location: Misc. Teacher from Massachusetts. Letters from Sarah Furber at a school in Plaquemine (probably the Iberville Female School Society, incorporated in 1842), Iberville Parish, Louisiana, expressing opposition to slavery and personal discontent with Louisiana. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1306.

Gaines, Myra Clark, 1805-1885. Letter, 1867 February 6. 3 items. Location: Misc. Daughter of New Orleans merchant Daniel Clark and party to litigation involving Clark's estate. Letter from Washington, D.C., to special legal commissioner Caleb Cushing pertains to preparation of her cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Included is an unrelated court summons (1842) and a bill of sale for land and a slave (1843). For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2637.

Galbrith, T. I. Papers, 1879-1888. 4 items [photostats]. Location: Misc. Justice of the peace for the 3rd Ward of East Carroll Parish, Louisiana. Letters to Galbrith from P. B. Pinchback, pertaining to Negro employment (1879); a document signed by Governor Samuel D. McEnery, appointing Galbrith justice of the peace; and an oath signed by Galbrith. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 778.

Gale, James. Document, 1811. 1 item [copy]. Location: Misc. Resident of the Mississippi Territory. Sale of slaves by Gale to Charles de Blanc of Attakapas Parish, Louisiana. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 152.

Gamble, Harry Pollard, 1876-1972. Papers, 1894-1970. 3 linear ft. Location: 40. New Orleans attorney and state legislator (1904-1906). Gamble was appointed assistant to the State Attorney General of Louisiana (1912). Papers reflect Gamble's interest in politics and social issues, especially race relations. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4054.

Gardiner, John I. Papers, 1839-1918 (bulk 1839-1877). 43 items (on 1 reel of microfilm and 4 photographic prints). Location: Mss.Mf:G, Misc:G. Cotton planter of Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, appointed tax collector of that parish in 1873. Earliest documents include family letters from Maryland, receipts for the burial of slaves, bank drafts, and tax receipts. Included is a Confederate tax estimate and assessment of agricultural products (1863) and Gardiner's appointment as tax collector. Reconstruction broadsides include an announcement concerning special taxes upon all professionals, trades, and stores; letters concerning Governor William Pitt Kellogg; and an address to black voters. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2206.

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879. Correspondence, 1861, 1876, 1879, n.d. 9 items. Massachusetts abolitionist. Letter (1861) in support of the abolitionist cause; four letters offering condolences on the death of Garrison's wife (1876); and one letter to a son (1879) offering condolences on the death of Garrison, with newspaper obituaries. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1350.

Gay, Edward J. Family Papers, 1797-1938. 53,039 items, 165 ms. vols. Location: Y-1-61, H:25-27. Planters of St. Louis Plantation near Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, Louisiana. Edward J. Gay was a U.S. representative (1884-1889); his grandson of the same name was a U.S. senator (1918-1921). Personal and business papers of the Gay and related families, containing materials on the Civil War and Reconstruction, St. Louis Plantation, the sugar cane industry, and slavery. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1295.Complete finding aid.

George J. Wainwright & Co. Letter, 1839. 1 item. Location: Misc:G. Letter written from Liverpool, England, discussing West Indies sugar trade, working conditions of African Americans in Jamaica and international trade. Letter is written on conjugate leaf of the LIVERPOOL PRICES CURRENT (April 19, 1839). For further information, see online catalog. Mss. 3676

Gerbeau, Joseph. Papers, 1817-1837. 5 items. Location: Misc. Resident of St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. Papers pertain to the mortgage of land and slaves. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 668.

Gilbert, T. B., Sr. Letter, 1894 November 10. 1 item [photocopy]. Location: Misc. Letter to J. L. Matthews discussing the strategy he used in engineering a victory for Democrat Charles Boatner in the 1891 congressional election and claiming that his success was due to the registration of 'colored voters,' most of whom voted as a bloc. Boatner ran successfully against Populist/Republican Alexis Benoist. Gilbert claims that despite this success, he does not consider himself a political boss, though others do. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3107.

Gillespie, James A., planter. Family Papers, 1776-1928 (bulk 1840-1890). 1,149 items, 20 ms. vols. Location: E:22-24, G:16, 65:G, Vault. Planter of Hollywood Plantation, Adams County, Mississippi, and Indian Village Plantation, Concordia Parish, Louisiana. Collection includes plantation records, business papers, and correspondence of the Gillespie family and business papers of the Davis family. Papers include slave sales, land deeds, a will, diaries, portraits, maps, sheet music, and fashion publications. Includes some printed items in German. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 4, Reels 5-8, or Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series I, Part 3, Reels 13-14. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 669, 695, 1104, 2086. Complete Finding Aid

Gillie & Co. Receipt, 1845. 1 item. Location: Misc:G. Receipt to Gillie & Co. for labor in a New Orleans chain gang performed by a slave named William. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4660.

Good Hope Plantation: Papers, 1864-1867 (bulk 1865). .5 linear ft. (100 items). Location: U:145. Papers indicate that George Gilson Klapp of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and James D. Waters leased Tyconia Plantation in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, in 1864. Klapp and Waters jointly leased Good Hope and Hermitage plantations during 1865 and 1866. Papers focus largely on the operation and management of Good Hope and Hermitage cotton plantations in Concordia Parish, Louisiana. Legal papers include a plantation lease agreement, mule loans, an arms permit, and labor agreements with freedmen. Financial papers include promissory notes; receipts for goods, services, and taxes; and accounts of merchandise purchased by laborers. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series B, Part 2, Reel 11. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 161.

Goree, Thomas Jewett, 1835-1905. Papers, 1829-1896 (bulk 1857-1896). 83 items, 1 vol. Location: A:4, H:16. Confederate captain and aide-de-camp to General James Longstreet during the Civil War. Collection consists of photographic copies and a bound typescript of correspondence. Goree's Civil War letters are written from Longstreet's headquarters in Virginia and are addressed to friends and family members in Texas. A copy of a diary kept by Goree describes a journey from Appomattox Court House, Virginia, to Talladega, Alabama, in the company of James Longstreet, Longstreet's son Garland, and a black servant. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 886.

Guild, John H. Letters, 1862-1864, n.d. 11 items. Location: Misc. Union soldier in the Civil War. Letters to Guild's family written from Ship Island, New Orleans, and elsewhere in Louisiana discuss camp life, the Mississippi River campaign, the Battle of Port Hudson, and the performance of African American soldiers. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3204.

Guillory, Claude. Document, 1783. 1 item. Location: Misc. Resident of Opelousas Parish, Louisiana. Sale of a slave of Claude Guillory to Jacques Michel and Jacques Gomez. In French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 756.

Gunby, A. A. (Andrew Augustus), 1849-1917. Papers, 1864-1973 (bulk 1849-1917). 152 items; 15 vols. (4 ms. vols., 11 printed vols.). Location: UU:215-216, O:17, 98:G, OS:G. Monroe lawyer, Louisiana Appeals Court judge (1881-1892), orator, poet, author, educator, and politician. Gunby founded the Louisiana Chautauqua and was active in the 1892 anti-lottery campaign. Collection includes Gunby's manuscript poetry, prose, speeches, papers, and photographs. Published writings deal with the education of African Americans and racial conflicts in the South. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3266.

Hampton, Wade, 1818-1902. Letter, 1867 August 13. 1 item. Location: Misc. Confederate general during the Civil War. Letter to a friend pertains to a speech he has written and explains his attitude toward the extension of political and civil rights to blacks. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2844.

Hanson, Abraham. Letters, 1864-1865. 2 items. Location: Misc. White American missionary in Liberia. Two letters by Hanson reporting on his personal life in Liberia and on his impressions of former slaves and natives. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3365.

Haron, Louis. Papers, 1764. 5 items. Location: Misc. Resident of New Orleans. Papers pertaining to the disposal of Haron's estate including auction sales of land and slaves. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 171.

Harris, William H. Papers, 1893-1930. 14 items, 1 ms. vol. Location: Misc. Probably a black man who served as foreman or handyman around Augusta Plantation Sugar House, Bayou Goula, Iberville Parish, Louisiana. Papers include business correspondence and a Wholesale Pocket Business Directory of New Orleans for 1893. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3261.

Harris, William. Poster, n.d. 1 item. Location: OS:H. Poster advertising a reward for information concerning a runaway slave of William Harris. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 395.

Hartford Citizens. Declaration, 1835. 1 item. Location: Impr. Anti-abolitionist declaration (broadside) by the citizens of Hartford, Connecticut, expressing their sentiments on slavery in the United States. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2045.

Hazard Company. Letters, 1839-1855. 88 items. Location: E:57. Rhode Island manufacturer of cotton and woolen clothing, shoes, and textiles, with agents operating in New Orleans. Correspondence deals with clothing and textiles sold to plantation owners of Louisiana and Mississippi, and clothing worn by slaves on plantations. Customers were primarily from the Feliciana parishes in Louisiana and the Natchez and Vicksburg, Mississippi, areas. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 789, 845, 942, 1194, 1232.

Heard, H. J. Letter, 1864 June 11. 1 item. Location: Misc. Judge and resident of Baton Rouge. Letter from Judge Heard stating that the black celebration over the news about emancipation in the state constitution of 1864 has caused New Orleans business to come to a standstill. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 238.

Hendree, George. Letter, 1827 October 4. 1 item. Location: Misc. Letter from Richmond, Virginia, to the Mayor of Philadelphia, regarding a runaway slave and offering a $100 reward for his return. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2114.

Henshaw, John, ca. 1827-?. Journal, 1849. 1 ms. vol. Location: W:19. Kentucky farmer, recently from Virginia. Journal covers a year of his farming operation, with detailed comments on crops, weather, slaves, family life, and neighbors. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3446.

Hines, Betty, 1948, interviewee. Oral history interview, 1993. 1 sound cassette (45 minutes), Index (3 pages). Location: L:4700.285. Resident of Four Corners, an unincorporated community south of Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. Hines was the foster child of a sharecropper. Hines' memories of childhood as the daughter of a sharecropper; sugarcane growing; the recollections of her great-grandparents' enslavement; difficulties of her early work with foster children; birth customs; and traditional foods. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4700.285.

Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904. Letter, 1902 April 22. 1 item. Location: Misc. United States senator. Letter, probably to Julia Ward Howe, discussing the exclusion of African Americans from the General Federation of Women's Clubs. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2707.

Hoard, Daniel. Document, 1847. 1 item. Location: Misc. Resident of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Sale (copy) of Jewell Plantation and slaves by Hoard to Richard H. Cox. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 668.

Holdrege, Henry R. Diary, 1865. 1 volume. Location: H:16. Holdrege served in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S. Nymph, a tinclad gunboat that was part of the Mississippi Squadron. Much of the time, the NYMPH and Holdrege were docked off Baton Rouge, La. Other locations he reports being include Lobdell Stores, Waterloo, the mouth of the Red River, and patrolling between Baton Rouge and Mulatto Point. Civil War entries pertain to infractions and crimes committed by him and other sailors, drunkenness,interaction with female civilians, witnessing a baptism of African-Americans in the Mississippi River, and recreational activities in Baton Rouge. Post-war entries record his trip home to Menekaune, Wisconsin. For further information see the online catalog. Mss. 4874.

Holman, William Steele, 1822-1897. Letter, 1861. 1 item. Location: Misc:H. Illinois congressman. Holman states his favorable opinion on the propositions by John J. Crittenden to restore the Missouri Compromise line and protect slavery in the District of Columbia by constitutional amendment. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3635.

Holmes, James. Papers, 1828-1838. 4 items. Location: Misc. Resident of East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Papers pertain to the mortgage of land and slaves including a settlement of partition of the property of the firm of Bostwick and Holmes; an appraisers certificate and questionnaire for stockholders of Citizens' Bank of Louisiana; and an act of mortgage. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 668.

Honore Daigre – Adelaide Hebert Sale, 1856, November 17. 1 item. Location: Misc: H. Honore Daigre and Adelaide Hebert were residents of Iberville Parish, La. A true copy of sale and adjudication of the sale of the plantation, land, and slaves of Honore Daigre and Adelaide Hebert, Iberville Parish. Includes a listing of their slaves' ages, sex, and family relationships, as well as a description of land and moveable property. In English and French. For further information see online ecatalog. Mss. 4888.

Hood, Henry E. Deed, 1846. 1 item. Location: Misc. Resident of Livingston Parish, Louisiana. Handwritten and typewritten copies of an act of sale of slaves by John G. Sibley of St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, to Hood. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 893.

Hope Farm Plantation photograph collection, 1870s?. 13 photographic prints. Location: E:64. Photographs of a plantation home, a sugar mill, men hunting, and an African American laborer on a sugar plantation on Bayou Terrebonne, 12 miles south of Houma, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4568.

Horton Family Papers, 1834-1848. 15 items. Location: Misc. Letters addressed to Nathaniel M. Horton, Amesbury, Massachusetts, written by his brothers. One letter is to his sister Elizabeth Colby of Salisbury, Massachusetts. The letters were sent from New York, Brooklyn, New Orleans, Liverpool, and Cadiz. Contents concern business and family matters, politics, city life, slavery, and ship travel. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3482.

Howard, David. Roll of freedmen, 1864 November 7. 1 item. Location: Misc:H. List of freedmen employed by David Howard on his Adams County, Mississippi, plantation. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3666.

Hubert, Louis A. Papers, 1832-1846. 10 items. Resident of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Papers consisting of acts of sale for slaves and a plantation, and a commission appointing Hubert justice of the peace of Pointe Coupee Parish in 1846. Misc. Mss. 1724.

Hunt, David. Family Papers, 1803-1838. 20 items. Location: U:158. Wealthy planters of Natchez, Mississippi. Personal and business letters to Abijah Hunt, wealthy merchant and slave holder of the Natchez District, and to his nephew, David Hunt, who amassed a large fortune as his successor. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 517.

Hyatt, Arthur W. Papers, 1861-1895 (bulk 1861-1864). 146 items; 4 ms. vols. Location: U:159, G:11. Officer in the Confederate army in the Civil War who served in Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama. Papers include official military records; personal and official correspondence; diaries; and newspaper clippings related to the Civil War, specific battles, and the Confederate army. Collection includes a description of the organization of the Corps d'Afrique. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Confederate Military Manuscripts Series B, Reel 10. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 180. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Iberville Parish (La.) Parish Court. Probate sale, 1837 February 14. 1 item. Location: Misc:P. A broadside for a probate sale to take place March 1837 in the Parish of Iberville (La.) for the estate of Robert Loyd. The items to be auctioned include the undivided half of a plantation, livestock, and slaves. Slaves are listed by name and their age. The item is signed by John Dutton, Parish Judge. In English and French. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4892.

Inman, B. R. (Benajah R.), b. 1820. Family Papers, 1808-1888. .2 linear ft. (68 items). Location: B:50. Planter of Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Inman inherited Smithland Plantation in 1863 from his aunt, Nancy Quine. Collection includes financial records; legal materials; correspondence; and miscellaneous and printed items. The financial and legal records document Smithfield Plantation and a dry goods store on it. Business letters to John Lee, a purchasing agent in New Orleans, deal with the price of cotton and other commodities. Slave bills of sale and labor contracts with sharecroppers are included. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 2, Reel 11. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 893.

Innerarity, John. Papers, 1800-1854. 48 items. Location: B:50. Vice Consul of France at Pensacola, Florida, and a member of the firm John Forbes and Company, which engaged in trade with Native Americans along the Gulf Coast. Correspondence documents shipment of goods, accounts, and purchases of slaves for a plantation in Georgia. Letters relating to Innerarity's French consular service (1835-1853) discuss land claims, political appointments, and the Mexican War. Some items in French and Spanish. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1271, 1273.

Isely, Henry. Correspondence, 1862-1863. 5 items. Location: Misc. Ohio school teacher serving as a soldier in the Union army in the Civil War. Correspondence from friends in Ohio reflecting opposition to abolitionists and telling of payments to secure exemptions from military service. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1598.

Jackson, Emma. Papers, 1914, n.d. 2 items. Location: Misc. Public school teacher and principal. Employment contract from Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, to teach as principal in the St. Paul (Colored) Public School (July 25, 1914) and a composition book of Emma Jackson, home economics teacher. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3437.

Jackson, Willie, 1889-, interviewee. Oral history interview, 1993. 1 sound cassette (45 minutes), Index (3 pages). Location: L:4700.282. Resident of Four Corners, an unincorporated community south of Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. Jackson and his daughter, Emma Dell Peters, lived on Sterling Plantation; Jackson's grandparents were slaves. Jackson describes his childhood in Four Corners, work cultivating and harvesting sugarcane, and raising crops with his parents. He describes early transportation by horse, foot, and boat; churches in the area; and life on Sterling Plantation. Jackson also describes credit at the plantation store; illnesses; marriage customs; gambling on the card game 'Kotch'; use of French language; French language work songs; and schooling. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4700.282.

Jefferson Davis family correspondence collection, 1868-1907. 12 items. Location: Misc:J. President of the Confederate States of America. He was married to Varina Howell Davis. Margaret Davis Hayes was their daughter. James Jones was an African American coachman who worked for Jefferson Davis. Davis' letter from Canada comments on his personal affairs and his letter to Samuel M. Duncan concerns family genealogy. Jones' correspondence includes letters of recommendation by Mrs. Davis and letters from Hayes about her father's personal effects. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 250, 893.

Jefferson, Elizabeth. Collection, 1867-1885, 1918 ca. 10 items [photocopies]. Location: Misc. Reminiscences by Elizabeth Jefferson describing her antebellum Mississippi home, and the treatment of the slaves and free blacks on the plantation. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2329.

Jenkins, John C. Family Papers, 1840-1900 (bulk 1840-1855). 89 items, 13 vols. Location: B:66, G:21, Mf. Experimental agriculturist and horticulturist and resident of Elgin Plantation, Adams County, Mississippi. Personal papers and diary of the Jenkins family. The diary records results of Jenkins' experiments at Elgin, plantation routine, financial transactions, social and literary activities, and travels. Purchases of slaves and health of slaves are noted. Jenkins' account book shows expenditures for the home, family, plantations, and slaves. Correspondence includes Civil War letters from Jenkins' son, a Confederate soldier. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 141, 142, 184, 187. Complete Finding Aid (PDF)

Jenkyn, Thomas W. Letter, 1837 February 16. 1 item. Location: Misc:J. Religious writer and president of Coward College, London. Letter written by Jenkyn to Rev. J. Austin Roberts of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Jenkyn reports on both personal and political matters, referring to the abolition of church rates in England and to the issue of slavery in the United States. Jenkyn names two ministers who had 'sunk sadly' due to their pro-slavery temporizing in the U.S. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3666.

Johnson, Henry, 1783-1864. Letter, 1827 May 30. 1 item. U.S. congressman, senator, and governor from Louisiana. Letter to the Governor of Mississippi pertains to the apprehension of a man who stole a slave. Filed in the manuscript card catalog under Johnson, Henry. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2869.

Johnson, Margaret. Correspondence, 1873, 1884-1907. 31 items. Location: E:45. African American resident of Amite, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. Correspondence from Johnson's children living in New Orleans, Mississippi, Texas, and New York City giving information about their means of livelihood, pecuniary status, and religious interests. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1103.

Johnson, William T. Memorial collection, 1793-1937 (bulk 1830-1870). 1,323 items, 58 ms. vols., 5 printed vols. Location: U:161, 0:24, 65, TC. African American barber and planter of Natchez, Mississippi. Personal papers, commercial records, diaries, and music of the Johnson family reflecting the condition of cultured and educated free persons of color both before and after the Civil War. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 4, Reels 1-6. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 529, 561, 597, 770, 926, 1093.Complete finding aid.

Johnston, Henry. Letter, 1863. 1 item. Location: Misc. Union soldier in the Civil War. Letter describes the training of his regiment on Long Island, its sea voyage from New York to New Orleans, its voyage upriver to Baton Rouge, and African American soldiers in the Union army. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2466.

Joly, Auguste. Document, 1811. 1 item. Location: Misc. Resident of New Orleans. Sale (notarized copy) of slaves by Auguste Joly to Louis C. deBlanc of Attakapas. In French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 190.

Jones, James M. Plantation Journals, 1854-1888 (bulk: 1855-1880). 6 items, 2 mansucript volumes, 1 mf reel. Location: Vault:64, Mss.Mf:B. James M. Jones was a cotton planter of Poplar Ridge Plantation, Rodney, Jefferson County Miss. Plantation journals (volume 1: 1854-1861, 1876-1880) and (volume 2: 1861-1866) record the weather, work done by his hands on the cotton, corn, pea, and fruit crops, the dates of the first cotton bloom for the year, and the amount of cotton picked. Farmers almanacs for 1876-1878 and 1880, as well as accounts with merchants, have been sewn into volume one. In addition to plantation work, volume two contains a few notations of Union soldiers in the area and the activities of freedmen (1864), as well as mentions of Jones's furloughs from the 4th Mississippi Cavalry. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4824.

Jorda, Jayme. Document, 1794. 1 item. Location: Misc. Sale (copy) of slaves by Jorda to Patricio Walsh, New Orleans. In Spanish. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 193.

Jordan, Randell M. Papers, 1963-1971. .3 linear ft. Location: E:64, 98:J. Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan in Winnfield, Louisiana. Manuscript materials include instructions given to Klan members and a speech given by Jordan. Printed items include political and informational materials, rules, codes, procedures, membership forms, oaths, and ephemera. Some materials relate to racial integration of Parkview Estate Nursing Home in Winnfield in the late 1960s; integration in schools; and political actions of John. F. Kennedy and others. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3360.

Joyce, John, d. 1798. Diary and memoranda book, 1776-1791. 1 vol., 1 microfilm reel. Location: Vault, Mss.Mf:J. Fought on the side of the British during the American Revolution and subsequently traded goods and slaves in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida. Diary entries record Joyce's experiences as a British soldier in the American Revolution and as a trader. The memoranda detail commerce in fur, slaves, and other goods. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4342.

Keller family. Plantation records, 1858-1937 (bulk 1908-1923). 1.9 linear ft. (9 items, 17 vols., 1 microfilm reel). Location: Misc:K, P:16, Mss.Mf:K. The Keller family owned Welham Plantation and operated a store in St. James Parish, Louisiana. Collection includes antebellum slave record books (1858-1860), and plantation and store ledgers, cashbooks, daybooks, and receipts. Slave record books are on microfilm. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3010.

Keller, Anatole J. Family Papers, 1885-1919. 2.5 linear ft. Location: 77:94-95, OS:K. Sugar technologist from Hahnville, Louisiana, active in the support of various black causes (1918-1919). Correspondence pertains to social life, Keller's work as a sugar technologist, sugar technology in the West Indies, and elementary school education in Louisiana. Papers related to black activism include copies of the Negro Advocate. Included are class notes and assignments (1907-1911) from LSU. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 2910.

Kellogg, William Pitt, 1830-1918. Papers, 1861, 1869-1884. 1,238 items. Location: U:176-179, OS:K. Collector of the Port of New Orleans, U.S. senator and representative from Louisiana, and governor of Louisiana. Papers relating chiefly to Kellogg's gubernatorial administration and including letters from contemporary politicians concerning local patronage, Negro voting, and federal occupation of certain areas of the state. Included are petitions for redress of grievances; extradition papers for fugitives from justice; and a joint resolution of the Louisiana Legislature opposing Kellogg's U.S. Senate membership. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 195, 543, 575.

Kelly, Lou M. Reminiscences and Letters, [1905], 1925. 3 items. Location: E:4. Lou Kelly lived at Ranson Plantation, St. Charles Parish, La. Kelly's reminiscences and letters pertain to an African American labor riot in St Charles Parish in 1880. Kelly wrote the reminiscences in 1905 for author Helen Pitkin Schertz's fictionalized account of the riot. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 4796.

Kendrick, Benjamin. Papers, 1806-1894 (bulk 1810-1840). .7 linear ft. (611 items). Location: U:170. Cotton planter and slaveholder of the Feliciana parishes, Louisiana. In 1823 he moved from St. Francisville (West Feliciana Parish) near Jackson (East Feliciana Parish) and in 1830 he established Asphodel Plantation there. Collection includes legal papers, bills, receipts, and correspondence. Papers document medical care for family members and slaves; and include letters from New Orleans merchants and a letter from a Missouri slave dealer (1836). Some materials relate to David J. Fluker of East Feliciana Parish, Kendrick's son-in-law. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 2, Reels 11-12. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 906.

Kendrick, Kenar T. Document, 1831. 1 item. Location: Misc., 7. Resident of West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Sale of slaves by Kendrick to David Jones Fluker. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 197.

Kenner, William, 1776-1823. Papers, 1802-1832, n.d. 371 items. Location: T:30. New Orleans factor and commission merchant affiliated with John Oldham and Richard Clague in a general mercantile and commission business under the firm name of William Kenner & Company. Business and personal papers of Kenner document territorial and antebellum economic and social life at New Orleans; conditions on the eve of the War of 1812; and details of the Battle of New Orleans. Included are papers relating details received at New Orleans on the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath; and papers reflecting slavery and plantation life in Louisiana and Mississippi. Available on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 3, Reels 12-13. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 1477, 1491. Complete finding aid (PDF).

Kilbourne, James Gilliam, 1828-1893. Correspondence, 1855-1859, 1865-1866. 15 items. Location: Misc. Planter, jurist, state legislator, Confederate captain, and member of the law firm Fuqua and Kilbourne of East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Letters from James O. Fuqua pertain principally to clients but also give some information concerning local politics and living conditions in Baton Rouge. Letters from others pertain to law suits and local politics. Included is a letter in which James O. Fuqua discusses the eagerness of some citizens to take the Amnesty Oath, civilian comments on the outcome of the Civil War, and the 'Negro Problem.' For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 1353.

King, B., Lieut. Letter, 1840 April 25. 1 item. Location: Misc:K. British naval officer heavily in debt. Letter from King appealing to David Selby, his creditor, not to prosecute him, but instead to allow him a tour of duty in the slave trade for the prize money to erase his debts. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 3666.

Kleinpeter, Joseph, b. 1798. Family Papers, 1817-1895. .25 linear ft. (51 items, 1 ms. vol., 1 printed vol.). Location: C:63, OS:K, 99:. Sugar planter of Variety Plantation in Iberville ghton, Josiah, 1796-1868. Family Papers, 1793-1909 (bulk 1861-1896). 270 items, 4 ms. vols. Location: E:21. Resident of Clinton, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Family member James H. Knighton was a private in the 4th Louisiana Infantry duringonfederate Military Manuscripts Series B, Reel 11. For further information see online catalog. Mss. 651.

Kosnegary, Etta. Letter, 1862 November 12. 1 item. Location: Misc. Confederate war widow of Columbia, Tennessee. Letter laments the death of her husband, and speaks of civilian hardships and the welfare of her slaves. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 2897.

Ku Klux Klan. Baton Rouge No. 3 Records, 1928-1939 (bulk 1928-1930). 90 items. Location: UU:308. Correspondence, membership lists, printed items, financial and legal documents, and miscellaneous papers. Correspondence relates almost entirely to administrative matters, membership, and local chapters, though some letters pertain to national politics, congressional legislation, and anti-Catholic sentiments. Printed items include newsletters, circular letters, and Klan guidebooks and literature. Also present are minutes, membership lists, and the Kilgrapp's (Secretary) quarterly reports. Mss. 4770. For further information see online catalog or complete finding aid.

La Cour, Antoine. Document, 1848. 1 item. Location: Misc. Resident of New Orleans. Sale (notarized copy) of a slave by Antoine la Cour to Eugene Rochereau. In French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 205.

Lacour Family Papers, 1828, 1831. 2 items. Location: Misc. Acts of conveyance of a sale of slaves to Pierre Lacour, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana (1828) and a sale of land to Villery B. Lecour, Natchitoches Parish (1831). In French. For further information see manuscript card catalog. ther information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 778.

Lakanal, Joseph, 1762-1845. Letter, n.d. 1 item. Location: Safe:12. French Revolutionary free-thinker and head of the College of Orleans in New Orleans. Letter about the punishment of a disobedient young slave and problems of master-slave relations. In French. For further inform further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3339.

Lanaux, George. George Lanaux and Family Papers, 1830-1915. 3 linear ft. (3,100 items). Location: UU:61-63, J:9, OS:L, 104-105. Planter of Bellevue Plantation in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, and later president of the New Orleans Insurance Association. Papers include correspondence, legal documents, financial documents, and photographs documenting the Lanaux family, plantation management, slave holdings, and land sales. Partly in French. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Recor