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[Identification of item], in the William James Payne Journal #5208-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased from Charles Apfelbaum of Watchung, N.J., in May 2005 (Acc. 100068).

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• Corn--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Family--Virginia--Social life and customs.
• Fluvanna County (Va.)--History.
• Fluvanna County (Va.)--Social life and customs.
• Payne, William James, 1827-1901.
• Plantation owners--Virginia.
• Plantations--Virginia.
• Slave trade--Virginia.
• Slavery--Virginia.
• Tobacco--Virginia--History--19th century.

William James Payne (1827-1901) owned the Pleasant View plantation in Fluvanna County, Va. He married Elizabeth Virginia Jones on 28 February 1854.

The collection is William James Payne's plantation journal for Pleasant View plantation in Fluvanna County, Va. The journal contains daily entries of a few sentences each, 7 October 1857-27 March 1861, with information about the buying slaves, selling slaves, the daily work of slaves, Payne's daily tasks, the weather, family news, and crops including corn and tobacco. The last few pages of the journal have account information, some of it related to corn transactions. There are also Payne's comments on the national political situation and the impending Civil War.