John William Mack plantation journal and account book, 1851-1872.

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John William Mack plantation journal and account book, 1851-1872.

Plantation journal and account book (78 pp.) spanning antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras, containing crop records, accounts of financial transactions, lists of notes hled by and against J.W. Mack. Also includes records of births and deaths within the Mack family and among the African American slave families; unsigned draft of a freedman's labor contract, 1866; records of provisions and tools issued to freedmen and days worked; medicinal recipes; poems about grief, bereavement, and deaths of loved ones; and list of taxable property owned by J.W. Mack during the Civil War.

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Mack family.

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Mack, John William, 1837-1908.

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Resident of St. Matthew's Parish (Orangeburg District, S.C.); husband of Emma G. Mack (1839-1895); both are buried at Pine Grove Lutheran Church in Lone Star, S.C. [a site now located in Calhoun County, S.C.] From the description of John William Mack plantation journal and account book, 1851-1872. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 775013626 ...