In the letter Morris, who is applying to be an overseer for Dellet, gives his terms for managing the plantation: he will take $1,000 to manage over fifty slaves and $800 to manage fifty or fewer.
The correspondence was written in regard to Pickett's research for his book HISTORY OF ALABAMA AND INCIDENTALLY OF GEORGIA AND MISSISSIPPI FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES.
In the letter Snell asks why the state legislature will not allow the people to vote on the proposed suffrage amendment to the United States Constitution: "The Legislature is not asked to grant suffrage to women, but is merely requested to permit...
In the letter Wright describes the landscape of France ("if you could see this country once you would never be thru telling what a beautiful place it is") and interactions with the French people ("They dress so funny and do everything in the...
2009-06-25
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