Letter from Harriet Dellet in Claiborne, Alabama, to her husband, James, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
In the letter she discusses supplying their slaves with winter clothes; the cotton and corn harvests and hog killing on the plantation; the upcoming presidential campaign, in which Andrew Jackson will not run; a new law in Louisiana prohibiting the introduction of slaves into the state; and local re...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/1666 |
| Summary: | In the letter she discusses supplying their slaves with winter clothes; the cotton and corn harvests and hog killing on the plantation; the upcoming presidential campaign, in which Andrew Jackson will not run; a new law in Louisiana prohibiting the introduction of slaves into the state; and local reports of rebellious slaves. |
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