Letters, 1843-1859, pertaining to slavery and slave hiring in Virginia [manuscript].

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Letters, 1843-1859, pertaining to slavery and slave hiring in Virginia [manuscript].

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On December 16, 1843, W.P. Goodwin, Rose Hill, Va., writes to James M. Beazley about a delinquent account partially caused by his slaves' poor management of the tobacco crop. On May 27, 1859, John B. Winfree, Woodlawn [near Petersburg], Va., writes to his brother Christopher V. Winfree, Lynchburg, Va., to discuss plans for recently inherited slaves, the hiring out of a slave and the refusal to hire out a female slave for factory work.

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Beazley, Mitchell

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Goodwin, W. P

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Winfree, Christopher J.

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Lynchburg, Va. resident. From the description of Letters, 1856-1860. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36536868 Christopher Valentine Winfree was from Lynchburg, Virginia. He graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1848 as a civil engineer, and was employed on railroads before the Civil War. He served as a Confederate Army officer throughout the war, and following that, became involved in the family grocery business and tobacco manufacturing, in Lynchburg,...

Winfree, John B.

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