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Certificate of Manumission; Ramsay, from "the Town of Alexandria in the District of Columbia," declares her "mulatto boy Henry Rowe to be free" in two years.

Introducing William L. Chaplin, who has been appointed an agent to the American Anti-Slavery Society and new on the lecture circuit; Successes of lecturer Henry Brewster Stanton, abolitionist and social reformer, in the Boston area.

Writing to his slave trading partner, noting that he is having difficulty obtaining checks and the slave market is dull. Lists full names of five enslaved people he has sold and prices realized. Expects when cotton begins to sell that the influx of money in the market will increase sales of enslaved people. Will return to Virginia soon to get money to Logan, but other Alabama traders advise him to stay. Has not heard from their slave trading partner, Joseph Meeks. N.B. Haynes and Logan from Virginia formed a slave trading partnership. They worked with speculator Joseph Meeks of Nashville, Tennessee, to sell enslaved people from the east to higher demand areas in the west and south.

Working to acquire documents relative to Huguenots in South Carolina. Unsettled by the "abolition question" in Washington, D.C., and the "true designs of the nonslaveholding states." Comments on disunion and secession. "In a few years agrarian vulgarity will govern the north-- The kitchen is destined to rule the parlor." Brief mention of "persons from the country" coming to Charleston for the races.

Requesting updates on Rebecca’s family and child in Baltimore. “Poor child, little you know what a world you are doomed to live in.” Hopes that Rebecca will not allow her child to be an “Abolition woman, that pest in society at the present day. Do not teach her what children now a days are taught to lisp – ‘I eat nothing but free sugar, and wear nothing but free clothing.’ Feels that Philadelphians are losing their “characters for moderation and order,” citing people fraternizing with Black people. Mentions having a cough, her garden, the transportation of a flower bouquet from the U.S. to England, and her enjoyment of the country.

Problems with labor supply because of abolition of apprenticeship in Demerara [Guyana]

Includes printed circular dispatches from the Secretary of State for the Colonial Department [Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg] regarding the liability to seizure of vessels carrying on slave trade between Africa and Brazil under the Portuguese flag. Vessels built in Brazil illegally sailed under Portuguese flag and continuing the slave trade defied the Treaty between Great Britain and Brazil for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Colonial authorities instructed to seize any such vessels and take them to court.

Regarding labor and the apprenticeship abolition act in Demerara; "the negroes having been quite alive to all that has been going on…for the last two or three weeks." $15 per month, including provisions (not clothing), is new wage proposed to laborers, and that laborers will not be happy with receiving part of their wages as food. Describes laborers as"whimsical" and that wages will not be agreed upon until the"feelings" of the laborers are clearer.

"Journal of an agent of the Pennsylvania Colonization Society"; describes his travels through Pennsylvania to give lectures, collect money, and urge locals to form their own societies. Zug reports on the level of interest in colonization that he encounters in various towns, notes meeting abolitionists and opponents of colonization. Also notes the presence of African-Americans in his audiences.