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[Identification of item], in the Breckenridge Family Papers, #1311, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• African Americans--Mississippi--History--19th century.
• Agriculture--Mississippi--History.
• Autobiographies--Mississippi.
• Carson, Florence Bowmar, fl. 1892-1903.
• Coahoma County (Miss.)--Social life and customs.
• Farm life--Mississippi--History.
• Frontier and pioneer life--Mississippi.
• Hutchins, John, b. 1774.
• Mississippi River--Description and travel.
• Mississippi--Biography.
• Natchez (Miss.)--History.
• Oasis Plantation (Coahoma County, Miss.)
• Plantations--Mississippi.
• United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

Microfilm of autobiography of John Hutchins (born 1774), son of Anthony Hutchins, an early Natchez, Miss., settler, with accounts of primitive agriculture, the Revolutionary War, frontier adventures, and trips down the Mississippi River to New Orleans and thence to New York or England. Also memoirs by Florence Bowmar Carson of daily life on Oasis Plantation in Coahoma County, Miss., 1892-1903, emphasizing the lives of blacks.