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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the William Page Saunders Papers #1204-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

All or part of this collection is available on microfilm from University Publications of America as part of the Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series J.

Acquisitions Information

Gift of W. Stamps Farrar of New Orleans, Louisiana, on 5 December 1946.

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• Brown, Lewis, fl. 1854.
• Claiborne, F. L., fl. 1856.
• Saunders, William Page, fl. 1854-1856.
• Slave bills of sale--Louisiana.
• Slavery--Louisiana.

William Page Saunders lives in New Orleans, La.

The collection includes a bill of sale for a female slave named Emeline or Eveline from Lewis Brown of Missouri to William Page Saunders of New Orleans, 11 May 1854, and a letter, 26 April 1856, from F.L. Claiborne to Saunders. In the letter, Claiborne, who had purchased the slave in turn from Saunders, stated that she had a bad cough and a diseased leg, but that he intended to keep her and try to cure her.