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Describes religious meetings among enslaved persons.

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PAGE THREE: I have not heard a sermon since you left here. Father Young has been returned to the mission among the blacks — The negroes have meetings among themselves. George is quite pious, sings and prays for the negroes, and is trying to do rite. They have good meetings sometimes. We are going to put up soon a large fine meeting house about 3 miles from us. Then we will have spot we can call our own free of other denominations, a rallying point for the methodists. I think we will PAGE FOUR: muster some 15 or more. I hope we will cope with the baptsit yet.

Approximate Creation Date

1827-01-22

Time Period

1820-1829

Subjects

Slaveholders ; Slavery--Mississippi ; Slavery--Mississippi--History--Sources

Keywords

slavery ; enslaved persons ; Mississippi

Geographic Location

Mississippi--Oakley

Object Type

Text

Physical Format

Document

Digital Format

TIFF

Physical ID

MSS 585 Lenior Plantation Records, Box 1, Folder 1, Manuscripts Division, Special Collections

Digital ID

Lenoir-Plantation-Records_1827-01-22_001 ; Lenoir-Plantation-Records_1827-01-22_002 ; Lenoir-Plantation-Records_1827-01-22_003 ; Lenoir-Plantation-Records_1827-01-22_004

Source

MSS 585 Lenior Plantation Records, Box 1, Folder 1, Manuscripts Division, Special Collections

Repository

Mississippi State University Libraries

Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries

Letter from William A. Blanchard to Absalom Blanchard

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