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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

"Monthly Account of Negroes, Stock, Produce, Receipts and Casualties on Park Hill Estate, St. Vincent," sent to Macdowall in Edinburgh. Printed table filled in for June and July 1830, listing increase, decrease, and total number of enslaved people. Lists number of draught oxen, horned cattle, and sheep, as well as amounts of sugar, rum, molasses, staves of red and white oak, feet of lumber, and acres of crops. Section for "Explanatory Letter" includes a letter from George Rickard regarding the completion and shipment of the sugar crop, as well as activities relating to rum and molasses. References enslaved women and children, whooping cough, "Cooper Rose" being hospitalized, and the need for certain supplies. Alex McB[]'s letter discusses the rum and molasses shipments, as well as the death of a woman in London and annuity payments to her heirs. See also Hugh Ramsay and Robert Cameron, Partially printed DS to Allan McDowall, July 1, 1832 - August 11, 1832.

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).

Court document certifying that Sally Carter swore that roughly 19-year-old Nancy Cater was free-born "and entitled to all the privaledges of a free person of colour." Includes description of Nancy Carter. Signed by Sally Carter with a mark. April 25 certification on verso provided by Mark H. Pettway, the Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Halifax, certifying John Young and Charles Shield as Justices of the Peace.

Utilizing Jeff, a 26-year-old enslaved man, as security on a lien for $450. Certified by William Woodcock, clerk of the County Court.

Recent slave purchases and prices and local reaction to Nat Turner's Southampton Insurrection; "negroes making the attempt to arise in Southampton County about 60 miles below hear are all suppressed . . . 50 or 60 they killed in all of the whites 64 mostly women & children..." Rumors of another insurrection in North Carolina have been dispelled.