Enslavers
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Bennet H. Barrow diary transcript
Typewritten transcript of Barrow's diary. Daily record of the operation of Barrow's Locust Grove (now Highland) Plantation in West Feliciana Parish. Includes detailed information on slavery, cotton, and politics. This transcription differs in many respects from the published version of the diary, "Edwin A. Davis, Plantation Life in the Florida Parishes of Louisiana, 1836-1846, as Reflected in the Diary of Bennet H. Barrow" (New York: Columbia University Press, 1943).
Mrs. Henry Hampton Davis memorandum
This item is a manuscript list of enslaved people, with probable ages, that had been transferred to her husband by his mother, Mrs. Susan Davis, in payment of a debt. Source unknown.
Sale of Enslaved Persons records
Sale of enslaved persons Jethro and Sinah by Alfred Bowren to James Coutts, January 13, 1829. Copy of the act of sale before Greenbury Ridgely Stringer, Notary Public. Click image to view materials.
Slavery Taxation forms
Four completed taxation forms listing slaves as the taxed property on the reverse. Three of the forms are from the third municipality. Click the image to view materials.