Brownsboro Ky. (1843) Slave trader's
letter to his brother, "I have paid out for
negroes her $4000 since I commence
bying..." "I will trie and com out next Spring
...if I git don trad in negroes by that time"
Eddyville Ky. (1843) Long descriptive
letter from daughter working as a
housekeeper in Kentucky to mother in
Connecticut. Tells of southern style of
building, treatment of slaves, etc. "...traveler
from the north will notice the little buildings
as soon as he gets into the slave states. The
southerner generally builds in this manner
owning whole families of negroes to wait on
them. They do not consider the labor they are subject to......" "I
do not envy them their wealth
in slaves; the continued care and watchfulness with the scolding and the whipping
which is
necessary in order to keep them in order....."
