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           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                             #2625-z
                     BENJAMIN LABAREE PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Benjamin Labaree (1801-1883) was head teacher at
           the Manual Labor School in Spring Hill, Tenn., and
           later president of Middlebury College in Vermont.
               Typescripts of papers, 1833 and undated, including
           a letter from Labaree to James Gillespie Birney,
           Huntsville, Ala., discussing the Manual Labor School
           and the colonization of slaves; and notes made by
           Labaree's grandson, Leonard, on Labaree's meeting with
           Birney.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Afro-Americans--Colonization.
   Birney, James Gillespie, 1792-1857.
   Labaree, Benjamin, 1801-1883.
   Labaree, Leonard Woods, 1897- .
   Manual Labor School (Spring Hill, Tenn.).
   Schools--Tennessee--History--19th century.
   Vocational education--History--19th century.

Size:  2 items (1 folder).

Provenance:    Copied from Elizabeth Labaree of Washington, D.C.,
               in December 1943.

Access:        No restrictions.

Processing Note:   This collection was processed with support
                   from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
  
Copyright:     Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
               or their descendants, as stipulated by United
               States copyright law.