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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC08987 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1861 |
| Title | Unknown to John Little Jr. regarding an escaped slave and preparing for war |
| Date | 9 June 1861 |
| Recipient | Little, John Jr. |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Reporting that a free negro sold his free papers to a slave in Alabama in order to help him escape, and also discusses church services and men preparing for the war. "Jim Abbot sold his free papers to Harrison Cribbs for him to get away to a free State. Shandy Jones heard of it & from jealous motives, informed on him. So he with Thom Fields were publicly whipped & ordered to leave the town in forty eight hours." Letter is postmarked 11 June 1861, and was written on the Sabbath, meaning 9 June 1861. Signed "May." |
| Subjects | Slave Life Freemen African American History Slavery Runaway Slave Civil War Military History Religion |
| People | Little, John, Jr. (fl. 1861) |
| Place written | Alabama |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Slavery & Abolition; African Americans |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |