Papers, 1831-1888.

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Papers, 1831-1888.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19312887

Correspondence, account book, commonplace book, daybooks, sermons, and doctrinal writings. Topics include the management of cotton plantations, tariff and the nullification controversy; transportation conditions; banking; missionary work among slaves; student life in Washington, D.C., and a student's view of ante-bellum politics; diseases, health, and remedies; Baptist doctrine and doctrinal disputes; religious revivals; the impact of the Civil War on civilian life; the work of aid societies; destruction of Rome, Georgia, by Union troops; wartime economic problems; mining near Potosi, Mo.; race relations in marriage and religion; politics in South Carolina in 1877; Brookes' family genealogy; and sermon notes.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Brookes 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. ...