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Some of the letters I reviewed may be helpful in writing your story - Lewellyn mentions illness and having to call the doctor to the plantation in Alabama. Could be some good background info!
Letters written to and from the Cameron family in the mid nineteenth century have been documented and digitized on the website www.plantationletters.com. The site features a document viewer in which users can browse the letters that have been catego…
I was wondering about that sequence of events as well. I forget which letter exactly that talked about the fight, but you might want to check out the letters I summarized in my section because there's one in there that might help!
ABOUT MILTON (the slave)
Charles Lewellyn to Paul Cameron - March 23, 1847
People Mentioned: Milton, Martha
Again Lewellyn writes about the abundant rainfall that is preventing the crops from being planted, and that locations for trade cannot be…
ABOUT MILTON (the slave)
Lewellyn to Cameron - February 27, 1847
People Mentioned: Colonol Tindall, Major Read, Greene, Joe, Sandy, Tony, Lewis, Milton
In this letter Lewellyn discusses matters on the plantation, including the shipping of cotton…
ABOUT MILTON (the slave)
Charles Lewellyn to Paul Cameron - February 9, 1847
People Mentioned: Sandy, Peggy, Delphy, Milton
Lewellyn sends this letter to Cameron to inform him that the cotton had not been shipped yet because there were older orde…
ABOUT MILTON (the slave)
W.F. Wade to Charles Lewellyn - February 5, 1847
People Mentioned: Milton, Paul Cameron, Charles Lewellyn
This letter is written by W.F. Wade, the jailor of Mason County, Alabama addressed to Charles Lewellyn. Wade says t…
ABOUT MILTON (the slave)
Charles Lewellyn to Paul Cameron - January 18, 1847
People mentioned: Milton, Henderson
In this letter Lewellyn discusses business with Cameron, who had shipped several items to the farm in Alabama recently. Lewellyn ment…
I would like to focus my topic around runaway slaves, and write a story accounting W.F. Wade's letter to Charles Lewellyn in Greene County, Alabama (2/5/1847) regarding a slave claiming he was on the way back to North Carolina to the Cameron plantat…
Find here analysis of the letters focused on the people mentioned in the letters and the conditions of their lives. This group work was completed by students in ECI 727A Digital history and Social Studies, Spring semester 2009 at NC State
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