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Collection Number: 00693-z

Collection Title: Thomas Steele Diary, 1854-1856

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Abstract Thomas Steele was a planter at Woodland, near Cheraw (Chesterfield County), S.C. The collection is a plantation diary, 1854-1856, of Thomas Steele containing almost daily entries recounting planting, cultivating, and harvesting cotton, corn, wheat, oats, and other crops; activities and health of slaves; activities of overseers; and discussion of farm animals, including mules, hogs, and dogs; construction projects; financial transactions; neighbors; cures; weather; and Steele's health. Steele apparently had two children, Willie and Eugene, whom he occasionally mentions sending to school.
Creator Steele, Thomas, fl. 1854-1856.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Thomas Steele Diary #693-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Alternate Form of Material
All or part of this collection is available on microfilm from University Publications of America as part of the Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series J.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Kate Shepherd Bennett of Wadesboro, North Carolina, in 1930.
Sensitive Materials Statement
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Thomas Steele, planter at Woodland, near Cheraw, Chesterfield County, S.C.

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Plantation diary, 1854-1856, of Thomas Steele, 153 pages. Almost daily entries recount planting, cultivating, and harvesting cotton, corn, wheat, oats, and other crops; activities and health of slaves; activities of overseers; farm animals, including mules, hogs, and dogs; construction projects; financial transactions; neighbors; cures; weather; and Steele's health. Steele apparently had two children, Willie and Eugene, whom he occasionally mentions sending to school.

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