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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Kean and Prescott Family Papers #2851, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Lent for filming by Mrs. Fred H. Gallup of Charlotte, N.C., in October 1952; Mrs. Robert Hill Kean of Richmond, Va., in February 1953; and Mrs. James H. Moulder of Miami, Fla., in November 1957.

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• Agriculture--Louisiana--History--19th century.
• Caroline County (Va.)--Social life and customs.
• Families--Louisiana--Social life and customs.
• Families--Virginia--Social life and customs.
• Hill family.
• Kean, Robert Garlick Hill, 1828-1898.
• Keane family.
• Louisiana--Economic conditions.
• Louisiana--History--War of 1812.
• Moore family.
• Moore, J. (John), 1788-1867.
• Prescott family.
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Louisiana.
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Virginia.
• Slavery--Virginia.
• Virginia--Social life and customs.

Scattered personal correspondence of the Hill and Kean families of Caroline County, Va., and the Prescott and Moore families of Louisiana. Topics include the War of 1812, economic conditions in the 1840s, and planting in Louisiana; slavery in Virginia; and Reconstruction in both states. Included are scattered papers of Robert Garlick Hill Kean (1822- 1898) of Virginia, but no papers relating to his service in the Confederate government, and of John Moore (1788-1867), U.S. representative from Louisiana.