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[Identification of item], in the Samuel Scarbrough Correspondence #5171-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Agriculture--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Alabama--Economic conditions.
• Benton County (Ala.)--History.
• Campbell County (Ga.)--History.
• Families--Southern States--Social life and customs.
• Georgia--Economic conditions.
• Mifflin (Tenn.)--History.
• Mount Gilead (N.C.)--History.
• Postmasters--North Carolina.
• Revivals--Southern States.
• Russell County (Ala.)--History.
• Scarbrough family.
• Scarbrough, Samuel, fl. 1834-1848.
• Slavery--Southern States.
• Southern States--Economic conditions.
• Southern States--Religious life and customs.
• Southern States--Social life and customs.

Samuel Scarbrough (fl. 1833-1848) was the postmaster of Mount Gilead in Montgomery County, N.C.

Correspondence of Samuel Scarbrough (fl. 1834-1848), the postmaster of Mount Gilead in Montgomery County, N.C., includes letters from his brothers Ambrose Scarbrough of Russell County, Ala., and Wilson Scarbrough of Campbell County, Ga.; from his nephew John A. Reynolds of Russell County, Ala.; and from Edmund Scarbrough of Mifflin, Tenn., and Abner Nash of Benton County, Ala. Correspondence describes the prices of slaves, land, cotton, corn, wheat, flour, and pork; religious revivals; health concerns; the difficulty of collecting debts; and politics.

Four of the letters are fragments.