Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                             #719-z
                    MANUEL J. THOUSTON LETTER
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Photocopy of letter from Isabella C. Sourtan, a
           former slave, of Liberty, Va., asking permission to
           return to work for her former master, Manuel J.
           Thouston, in Gloucester County, Va.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Afro-American women--Virginia--History--19th century.
   Freedmen--Virginia--Correspondence.
   Reconstruction--Virginia.
   Sourtan, Isabella, fl. 1865.
   Thouston, Manuel J., fl. 1865.

Size:  1 item (1 folder).

Provenance:    Received from George Coffin Taylor of Chapel Hill,
               N.C.

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.