- Description
- 1 online resource (459 manuscripts; 4,610 items).
- Summary
- Rice Carter Ballard (c. 1800-1860) was an agent in the internal slave trade in the United States and co-owner of several plantations in the Mississippi Valley. The Rice C. Ballard Papers, 1822-1888, are a trove of information on the institution of slavery. The collection contains such documents as correspondence, slave lists, slave trading accounts, and plantation journals, all illuminating aspects of the institution of slavery.
- Series Statement
- Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery
- Uniform Title
- Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery.
- Subjects
- Note
- Reproduction of the original from the Rice C. Ballard Papers #4850, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- OCLC
- Author
Ballard, Rice C. (Rice Carter), -1860.
- Title
Rice C. Ballard papers [electronic resource], 1752-1891 1816-1888.
- Series
Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery
Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery.
- Local Note
aImages from the source libraries are selected contents of the original collection materials as representative of their value and pertinence to the digital product.
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