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She will send money from their brother, for clothing. When her sister travels to Milwaukee, he will send money for travel expenses. Nancy recently stayed with Henry at his large plantation in Louisiana. She remarks: "I should think the slaves the happiest servants in this country, I did not see any of the horrors we read of." Steamer travel up the Mississippi.

Document certifying that Adaline, a thirty-old slave of John T. Pleasant, has been manumitted contingent upon the Powhattan Court's issuing Adaline her "free papers." Pleasant's children inherited Adaline as part of the estate of John T. Pleasant upon his death.

Overseeing cotton picking at their father’s plantation. Attended a party hosted by the masons, where he “saw all the girls” and relays their love for his brother. Having issues with the “Culbrut men”, including an altercation where he shot at one. Reports on their father’s declining health and their mother missing him. Brief mention of travel plans to Nashville. Mentions of cruelty to enslaved workers, punishments for stealing wheat, and attempts to run away/self-emancipate. “... all the negroes talk about you they say you are a great deal better to them than I am I have whip[p]ed nearly all of them sinse I have be[e]n her[e].”

Judgement of Grand Jury on William Brown, a free black man, "did . . . become & Still is unlawfully and feloniously a Member of a Secret Society of free Negroes, Called free Masones on the information of John Pope."

Request to help free a "young slave girl, about 15 years old, (so white that she could pass generally as a white girl)" as she is in New Jersey but expected to be returned South. She "is entitled to her liberty, having been permitted to come North by her owner." Discusses the boast of a Quaker who allegedly "slept with a negro, as a proof that he had no prejudice!" Laments someone's mentioning Washington and Jefferson as slave-holders, which will be circulated in the proslavery press.

Document for hire of a slave named Mary Ann for $65, with a list of items she is to be provided with, "not to be carried out of the State of Virginia."

Document for hire of a slave named Charles for $20, with list of items he is to be provided with. Included on back is a hand-written note that the jury awarded the plaintiff the amount specified in the bond plus interest.

Regarding proposal for Gerrit to write his life story. Smith declined by saying that"my political and religious views are very unpopular & the people have but little patience with this matter."

Regarding antislavery and the constitution; Mentions Wendell Phillips.

Orders to the conductor of the rail roads from Montgomery to Dalton, Georgia and to Lynchburg to allow the free passage of Elias, an enslaved man serving as the body servant of Captain Hunter of the Metropolitan Guards. Signed by Moore, the Governor of Alabama. Written on Executive Department stationery.