Iveson L. Brookes papers 1817-1888 and undated

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Iveson L. Brookes papers 1817-1888 and undated

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Collection includes correspondence of a Baptist preacher and landholder in South Carolina and Georgia and his family and descendants. Topics include the management of cotton plantations, tariff and the nullification controversy, missionary work among slaves, student life in Washington, D.C., and a student's view of antebellum politics. Also discussed are diseases, health, and remedies, Baptist doctrine and doctrinal disputes, the impact of the Civil War on civilian life, the work of aid societies, destruction of Rome, Georgia, by Union troops, and wartime economic problems along with Brookes' family genealogy and his sermon notes.

1.5 linear feet; 3 boxes, 720 items (inc. 11 volumes)

David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6359212

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Brooks family

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Brookes, Iveson L., 1793-1865

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Baptist clergyman and planter, of Hamburg (Aiken Co.), S.C. From the description of Papers, 1831-1888. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19312887 Baptist minister, educator and planter; born in N.C.; plantations in Jasper and Jones counties, Ga., and Edgefield County, S.C., and elsewhere; 1819 graduate of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; employed overseers to manage plantations while working as minister and educator, in North Carolina, and Georgia. ...