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Collection Number: 02530-z

Collection Title: Black Family Papers, 1797-1926.

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available through the World Wide Web. See the Duplication Policy section for more information.


This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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Size About 120 items
Abstract Members of the Black family lived in Virginia, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The collection contains correspondence and letters, business papers, newspaper clippings, Confederate army records, notes, genealogical material, and other papers related to the Black family. There are frequent gaps in dates. Earlier papers are business and family letters of David Black, merchant ship captain of Alexandria, Va., including five letters, 1833-1848, from relatives in Scotland, who were linen weavers, discussing labor conditions and politics. The bulk of the papers regard the financial affairs of Robert Martin of Erwinton, S.C., and his Erwin relatives in the 1840s and after the Civil War. There also are business letters of U. M. Robert of Albany, Ga.
Creator Black (Family : Black, David (Merchant ship captain of Alexandria, Va.))
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
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 Black Family Papers, #2530-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Gift of Mrs. David C. Black, 1943.
Additional Descriptive Resources
A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, November 2010

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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Members of the Black family lived in Virginia, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

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The collection contains correspondence and letters, business papers, newspaper clippings, Confederate army records, notes, genealogical material, and other papers related to the Black family. There are frequent gaps in dates. Earlier papers are business and family letters of David Black, merchant ship captain of Alexandria, Va., including five letters, 1833-1848, from relatives in Scotland, who were linen weavers, discussing labor conditions and politics. The bulk of the papers regard the financial affairs of Robert Martin of Erwinton, S.C., and his Erwin relatives in the 1840s and after the Civil War. There also are business letters of U. M. Robert of Albany, Ga.

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