One of the more striking aspects of the Cameron plantation letters is the account they offer of the exportation of slave life from the areas of initial settlement on the Atlantic seaboard beyond the Appalachian mountains into the old Southwest and...
Michael Dykema
Series 1.3.3, Box 40, Folder 937
From: Paul Cameron
To: Duncan Cameron
November 5th, 1844
Excerpt From Page 1: “I parted with our people and Mr. Laws just beyond Boone’s Station … I stayed out with them both nights and reduced thin...