Slave Birth Record, 1807-1861

Summary

Abstract:

The collection is five pages from a medical manual entitled "A Compendium of the Theory and Practice of Midwifery containing Practical Instructions for the Management of Women during Pregnancy, in Labour, and in Child-bed," by Samuel Bard, 1817. Records of slave births and deaths from 1807 to 1861 are written in the margins. The pages appear to be from a volume belonging to A.C. Philips. No location is indicated.

Extent:

1 item

Language:

Materials in English

Library Catalog Link:

View UNC library catalog record for this item

Background

Scope and content:

The collection is five pages from a medical manual entitled A Compendium of the Theory and Practice of Midwifery containing Practical Instructions for the Management of Women during Pregnancy, in Labour, and in Child-bed, by Samuel Bard, 1817. Records of slave births and deaths from 1807 to 1861 are written in the margins. The pages appear to be from a volume belonging to A.C. Philips. No location is indicated.

Acquisition information:

Received from Mrs. J. Marshall Harrison of Columbus, Georgia, before 1945.

Processing information:

Processed by: E. Neal, August 1973; Shonra Newman, July 1990; and Roslyn Holdzkom, May 1991

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

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.

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.

Related

Related material:

• Tillman and Norwood Ledgers (#2901), concerning Russell County, Alabama, physicians, in which entries for Mrs. P. Phillips and for the estate of P. Phillips appear, and in which some of the names of slaves in this collection are duplicated.

Other finding aids:

All or part of this collection is available on microfilm from University Publications of America as part of the Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series J.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Medical literature--History--19th century.
Obstetrics--Study and teaching--History--19th century.
Slave records--United States.

Names:

Philips, A. C.

Restrictions to access:

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to use:

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

No usage restrictions.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], in the Slave Birth Record #672-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of this collection:

Southern Historical Collection

Louis Round Wilson Library

200 South Road

Chapel Hill, NC 27515

Contact:

(919) 962-3765

wilsonlibrary@unc.edu