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Ledger of Thomas Ruffin, July, 1825
Name Age Purchase Price ($) Temperance 18 270 Anne 20 310 Charles 17 410 Alphonse 17 335 Henry 32 310 Prouy & 2…
Tags: Slavery/Slaves
Ledger of Thomas Ruffin, 1825
Name Age Sale Price ($) Anne 20 475 Charles 17 600 Celia & 3 Children 1100 Alphonse 17 550 Little Charles & 2 cisters (sic)…
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Letter of Thomas Ruffin to Archibald Murphey, October 29, 1831
Dear Sir,
The occasion of the least ___ is a source of much pain to me, after the intimate intercourse, which has ___ under diversity of fortune through a great number of years. I am sure, that I would not willingly or rather inconceivably do an…
Tags: Slavery/Slaves
Articles of Agreement between Benjamin Chambers and Thomas Ruffin, October 26, 1821
The said parties here agree and do hereby agree to carry on together & as copartners the purchasing of slaves & selling the same, upon the following terms. ___ the said Ruffin is to put in & hath at the execution of these presents put in as his part…
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First Draft of Thomas Ruffin's Decision in State v. Mann, 1830
State v. Mann This is one of those cases which a Court will always regret being brought into judgement--One in which principles of policy urge the Judge to a decision in discord wiht the feelings of the man. But intil the condition of our population…
Tags: Slave Law, Slavery/Slaves
State v. Mann (1829)
The master is not liable to an indictment for a battery committed upon his slave. One who has a right to the labor of a slave, has also a right to all the means of controlling his conduct which the owner has. Hence one who has hired a slave is not…
Tags: Slavery/Slaves, State Government
Bartholomew F. Moore, 1801-1878
Letter of Sterling Ruffin to Thomas Ruffin, June 9, 1804
From Sterling Ruffin. [Brunswick, June, 1804] I have no apology to offer for not complying with the promise made in my last, of writing again, in a few days, except that I wish'd to have forwarded you a small B. Note, for fear, from some unforeseen…
Tags: Race relations, Slavery/Slaves
Seth A. Frederiksen, "All Sides and All Stories Should be Taken into Account," April 29, 2012
It is tragic that the Civil War era is used to promote harmful divisions since it prevents us as a nation to gaining a full understanding of the war as it truly is: a complex, a layered crisis that involves much time and attention in order to gain a…
Tags: Civil War, Memory, Slavery/Slaves, State's Rights
John W. Ellis, 1820-1862
John Willis Ellis was a North Carolina lawyer, legislator, judge, and Democratic governor. Born in Rowan County in 1820, he was a son of a Planter. Ellis graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1841, and served as a lawyer, until he was…
Tags: Secession, Slavery/Slaves
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Daniel Lindsay Russell, Jr., 1845-1908
Daniel Russell, a former Confederate soldier, became disillusioned by Southern leadership during the Civil War and joined the Republican Party in…