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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.

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.

The 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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Albany (Ga.)--Economic conditions.
• Black family.
• Black, David (Merchant ship captain of Alexandria, Va.)
• Erwin family.
• Erwinton (S.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Linen industry--Scotland--History--19th century.
• Martin, Robert, fl. 1840-1865.
• Robert, U. M.
• Scotland--Politics and government--19th century.
• Ship captains--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Weavers--Scotland--History--19th century.

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.