Sharecropping contract between Willis P. Bocock and several people who had been enslaved on his plantation.

Sharecropping contract between James G. Tait and Thomas Hill, a freedman.

Mourning Smith Gracey Bocock with her second husband, Willis P. Bocock.
by: W. A. Reed, Mobile, Alabama

Sampson Lightning, who had previously been enslaved by the Matthews family, standing in a field in Cahaba, Alabama.

Sampson Lightning, who had previously been enslaved by the Matthews family, standing in a field in Cahaba, Alabama.

Incomplete letter, apparently from a young woman who had been ill.

Labor contracts between James A. McMillan and freedmen who will work on his property.

Receipts issued by Tristam Bethea to African American laborers who signed contracts to work at his plantation in 1866.

Account of wages owed by Rebecca Smith to freedmen whom she had contracted to work on her plantation for a year.

Address on the colonization of Africa by formerly enslaved people.

Contract for B. Wilson, a freedman, who will be working several months for P. J. Weaver of Dallas County, Alabama.

Receipts for the sale of enslaved people who were purchased by Avery L. Clapp in Montgomery, Alabama.

Documents Recording the Enslaved Community of Sweetwater Plantation

Tait Plantations, Purchases of Enslaved Workers
by: Baker, Isaac; Blakeney, Elizabeth; Capers, Ann G.; Cooper, Aaron B.; Daniel, William F.; Evans, William G.; Fairly, John P.; Fountain, H. C.; Gooden, George M.; J. C. Brandt & Co.; Jordan, J.; Jordan, N.; King, R. L.; King, W. D.; Little, Asa; MacBeth, Alexander; MacBeth, William Henry; Puryear, Alex B.; Reese, C.; Roberts, E. M.; Snow, Thomas H.; Stovers, William B.; Tait, Charles William; Tait, Sarah; White, F. M.; Williamson & Puryear;

Senator Hugo Black and his wife learning that he had been appointed to the Supreme Court.

Administrator's sale on enslaved people
by: Cockrill, G.L. Cockrill, J.P.

Letter from Constantine Badger to Timothy C. Moore, who had been a colonel in the 34th New Jersey Volunteer Regiment.

Correspondence sent by formerly enslaved people to Edward H. Moren and his wife from 1869 to 1884.

Document granting James Caller power of attorney to reclaim two slaves who had been stolen from Malachi and Mary Murphee of South Carolina.

"In Memoriam" written honoring the recently deceased William H. Troy, who had been a student at Greene Springs School in Hale County, Alabama.

Bills of sale for enslaved people, most of whom were purchased by John P. Blackmon of Georgia.

Mrs. Frank Manfree, the sister of Sam Oddo, who had been murdered in his apartment in Bessemer, Alabama.
by: Little, Pete

Mrs. Frank Manfree, the sister of Sam Oddo, who had been murdered in his apartment in Bessemer, Alabama.
by: Little, Pete

Labor contract between William R. Pickett II and approximately fifty freed persons who will work on his property in Autauga County, Alabama.

Sharecropping agreement between Margaret Pearson and Warren Whitehard, Macon County, Georgia, January 3, 1866

Tait Plantations, List of Enslaved Women and Their Children
by: Tait, James Asbury, 1791-1855

Tait Plantations, Lists of Enslaved Workers, by Categories
by: Tait, James Asbury, 1791-1855

Tait Plantations, Lists of Enslaved Workers, with Valuations
by: Tait, James Asbury, 1791-1855

Contract between the trustees of Cotton Port and John Coffee, who has just purchased a plot of land.

Contract between the trustees of Cotton Port and James Bright, who has just purchased a plot of land.

Labor contracts between Nancy S. Kendrick and freedmen who will work on her property in Bullock and Macon County, Alabama.

County court appearance docket and register of enslaved people in Perry County, Alabama.

Abstract of expenditures on the impressment of enslaved people from August 1863 to January 1864.

Affidavit for the impressment of enslaved people and supplies from Coosa County, Alabama, in 1863.

David Smith standing at the knee of his father, Robert, who had been an editor of The Southern Courier in Montgomery, Alabama.
by: Peppler, Jim

Contract between the trustees of the Cotton Port Company and John Coffee, who has just purchased forty acres of land.

Contract between A. S. Naftel and Franklin Perkins, a freed slave who would be working as a sharecropper on Naftel's land.