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The Quaker grammarian and moralist gives his opinion against immediate emancipation in the West Indies; "such a measure, would ultimately prove destruction of both the Whites and the Blacks, and the total ruin of the cause, in which we are engaged." However, he believes that Heyrick could publish a "plausible and humane" work on the subject and requests that she send him two copies of the work.

Binding Betsey, a free African-American girl, to Cox as his apprentice to learn the art of housekeeping until she has reached the age of 21. Signed by William Hardin, George Cox, and Samuel Phillips.

"Brechin Castle Estates Journal." Overseer's report for a sugarcane plantation, detailing information on slaves, plantation production, livestock, articles received and delivered, a white worker, and general observations on slave health, weather, and sugar cane cultivation. Accounts for the 55 enslaved men, women, boys, girls, and children, and details the location and type of their labor. Includes a note about retaining some rum "for Estates use – for the slaves." Details number of acres of sugarcane and plantains under cultivation. Comments on illnesses, including dysentery, sores, and fevers, and mentions one elderly man who is believed to be faking sickness. "Teddy has been since June last in the hospital the Doctor Can see nothing the matter with him but Laziness to move about, and this I am obliged to Indulge him with on consequence of his old age."

Miner, a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, offers opinions and information on colonization; 1808 abolition of slave trade has not worked, the possibility of sending Africans to Cuba.

Sale of Caroline, a slave child, by Samuel Bowling to George Alderson for $200. This document arrived at the Clements Library with John Anderson DS to Nathaniel Willsin [i.e. Wilson], April 14, 1785, respecting the sale of James, another child slave.

Ralph Gurley's findings while researching 'Prince' [Abdul Rahman], an escaped slave, who claimed Moorish ancestry was a way to secure his liberation and eventual journey back to Africa.

Regarding Methodist missionaries and recent "Nevis Marriage Act"; the act reads that "It is expedient to encourage the Celebration of . . . Marriages among the Slaves of this Island, and, as forces can be, abolish the irreligious mode of living together between the sexes." Requests that the Methodist missionaries living in Nevis be granted the right to sanction slave marriages. Attached is Horace Twiss LS to James Townley, s.l.; December 6, 1828, regarding slave marriage.

School essay on Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution.

A free person of color's bond

Estate documents of James French's Richmond Hill plantation, St. Vincent, including an inventory of enslaved persons from 1817-1827. The inventory includes names, "colour," employment, age, and "country" (African or Creole).