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Size | 9 items |
Abstract | The Henry Alderson Ellison Papers document people enslaved by Ellison, a white farmer in Baldwin County, Ala. A notebook contains lists of enslaved people in 1848 and 1858-1860 and records of their labor being hired out. Also included is an 1864 letter from Abram M. Allen, who had been enslaved by Ellison but manumitted before the American Civil War. Allen wrote from Washington, N.C., to Eliza Tripp Ellison, the widow of Henry Alderson Ellison, at Wilson, N.C., where she had taken refuge during the war, in which he informed her of his whereabouts and offered hope for the future. Other papers include an 1867 letter to Eliza, now living near Mobile, Ala., from Edward Stanly (1810-1872), a California politician who had been U.S. representative from North Carolina, describing conditions in California and evaluating prospects there for southerners; and five invitations to social functions in Beaufort County, N.C., 1877-1880 and undated, sent to Ellison and Bonner family member. |
Creator | Ellison, Henry Alderson, d. 1862. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Roslyn Holdzkom, April 1991
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, December 2009
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
Conscious Editing Work by: Nancy Kaiser, July 2020. Updated abstract, subject headings, biographical note, scope and content note, and container list.
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This collection was rehoused under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.
Back to TopThe following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.
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Henry Alderson Ellison (d. 1862) was a white farmer who enslaved people on his land in Baldwin County, Ala. He was married to Eliza Tripp Ellison (Active 1864-1867).
Abram M. Allen, who had been manumitted by Henry Alderson Ellison before the American Civil War, was living in Washington, N.C., in 1864.
Back to TopThe Henry Alderson Ellison Papers document people enslaved by Ellison, a white farmer in Baldwin County, Ala. A notebook contains lists of enslaved people in 1848 and 1858-1860 and records of their labor being hired out. Also included is an 1864 letter from Abram M. Allen, who had been enslaved by Ellison but manumitted before the American Civil War. Allen wrote from Washington, N.C., to Eliza Tripp Ellison, the widow of Henry Alderson Ellison, at Wilson, N.C., where she had taken refuge during the war, in which he informed her of his whereabouts and offered hope for the future. Other papers include an 1867 letter to Eliza, now living near Mobile, Ala., from Edward Stanly (1810-1872), a California politician who had been U.S. representative from North Carolina, describing conditions in California and evaluating prospects there for southerners; and five invitations to social functions in Beaufort County, N.C., 1877-1880 and undated, sent to Ellison and Bonner family member.
Back to TopFolder 1 |
Notebook, 1848-1860 |
Folder 2 |
Other papers, 1848-1882 |