Primarily the papers of Derrill Burrell, Benjamin K. Sanders, and of the Sanders family, concerning the management of small plantations in Colleton County, S.C. Correspondence contains family letters and letters from various cotton factors in Charleston, S.C. Financial papers include household and plantation accounts, receipts for the sale of slaves, and tax receipts. The collection aslo contains wills, deeds, records of lawsuits, and three volumes, including a book listing slaves and their prices and a record of days missed and wages lost by black workers in 1866.
