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Size | 5 items. |
Abstract | Lawyer and judge of New Orleans, La. A four-volume diary of Walter T. Scott and an account of an incident in his life. The diary, April 1877-March 1878, describes Scott's daily family and judicial activities in New Orleans and includes reminiscences of his imprisonment at Ship Island, Miss., during the Civil War. "The Case of the Runaway Slave" is an account by Katherine Kirkwood Scott of how, in 1855, Scott secured the freedom of Salome or Sally Miller or Muller, a white woman who had been a slave from infancy. |
Creator | Scott, Walter T., 1827-1879. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, November 2009
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Lawyer and judge of New Orleans, La.
Back to TopA four-volume diary of Walter T. Scott and an account of an incident in his life. The diary, April 1877-March 1878, describes Scott's daily family and judicial activities in New Orleans and includes reminiscences of his imprisonment at Ship Island, Miss., during the Civil War. "The Case of the Runaway Slave" is an account by Katherine Kirkwood Scott of how, in 1855, Scott secured the freedom of Salome or Sally Miller or Muller, a white woman who had been a slave from infancy.
Back to TopFolder 1 |
"The Case of the Runaway Slave" by Katherine Kirkwood Scott. |
Reel 1 |
Diary, April-July 1877 |
Reel 2 |
Diary, 23 July-October 1877 |
Reel 3 |
Diary, January-March 1878 |