Confronting the legacy of slavery through research and action
There is a growing trend of academic institutions studying their historical relationship to slavery. Leaders of this important movement in higher education include Brown University, University of Virginia, Georgetown, Harvard, and Columbia, among others.
The University of Mississippi was among the first institutions in the Deep South to join this list in 2014 through the formation of a multidisciplinary faculty working group, the UM Slavery Research Group. Our group participates in this national initiative through academic partnerships such as the University of Virginia-sponsored Universities Studying Slavery Consortium. We have also been invited to national level planning workshops hosted by the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University in March 2017. Being a part of these emerging discussions represents a tremendous opportunity for research faculty and students at the University of Mississippi to join and provide leadership in these cutting-edge research and public engagement efforts. The potential for funding and publication opportunities is tremendous and we are poised to become a central player in this new and exciting academic field.
This academic development is part of a larger international movement that recognizes the need for museums, memorials, and historic markers that commemorate slavery and tell the story of slavery to current and future generations. From the new Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. to the Whitney Plantation near New Orleans, we can see a growing interest in understanding the lives of the enslaved. But the expertise and staffing required to document and create these visitor experiences is currently insufficient. We anticipate a larger demand for curators, docents, historians, archaeologists and genealogists to fill these needs.
Our goal is to provide the academic space for creating new research technologies and providing training for these future scholars and interpreters. Drawing on the latest innovations in the fields of public history, racial reconciliation (which aims to strengthen divided communities), genealogy (which connects families and individuals to the larger national and global story), digital media technology (which utilizes data analytics to strengthen our ability to peer into the past and digital media to make our past accessible to all) and utilizing state-of-the-art research technologies in these and other fields, we are well-situated to undertake a number of research and public engagement projects that are already attracting donor interest and will put the University of Mississippi on the map as an institution at the forefront of this crucial scholarly work.
The UMSRG has recovered original maps of both campus and the Oxford-Lafayette County community.
Campus maps have helped us identify several buildings that may have been used as living space for enslaved people and servants from the 1850s to the 1890s. But the search for such data netted information about the surrounding area as well.
“As part of our effort to locate information regarding the original UM campus geography, members of our group have located some previously unseen Civil War-era maps that contain extensive information regarding the geography of slave holdings in Lafayette County and neighboring areas at the time of the war,” said Jeff Jackson.
The search for the maps began within the working group and led to collaborations with community members from the Oxford-Lafayette County Heritage Foundation to discover the maps in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland. There, the group found eight maps of north Mississippi produced by the Union Army in 1862, detailing slaveholders, their homes and slave quarters in the area.
“These maps represent a significant resource for researchers interested in reconstructing a deeper understanding of the relationship between slavery and the University of Mississippi,” Jackson said.
Six of the eight maps show details related to slavery in Northern Mississippi at the time of the war including the location of “cotton fields,” “cotton presses,” names and location of slaveholders and their homes (including many who had direct connections to the University, such as Thomas Isom and Alexander Pegues) and even, in some cases, slave quarters and rows of slave quarters. These maps represent a significant resource for researchers interested in reconstructing a deeper understanding of the relationship between slavery and the University of Mississippi. They are listed below.
Find additional resources at the Lafayette County Historic Maps Project and eGrove.
This map shows most of Lafayette County in 1862 including the town of Oxford and the University of Mississippi beginning from just South of Oxford, and going up to what used to be called “Lumpkins Mill” (now Wall Doxey State Park). It includes Abbeville, College Hill, Tchulahoma, Waterford, Wyatt and portions of the Tallahatchie River d It is also a partial mapping of many landholdings in the county and includes the names of 84 landowners listed next to their properties as well as identifying accompanying houses, “fields,” “mills,” “cotton presses,” and slave cabins.
This map shows the area of southern Lafayette and northern Yalobusha counties and includes Water Valley, Springdale, Yockna Station (now Taylor), and portions of the “Yoknapatafa” River. It is also a partial mapping of many landholdings in the county and includes the names 62 landowners listed next to their properties as well as identifying accompanying houses, “fields,” “mills,” “cotton presses” and slave cabins.
This map shows the area of Northern Lafayette and Southern Marshall counties and includes Holly Springs and Lamar. It is also a very partial mapping (most of the map is blank) of some of the landholdings in the county and includes the names of some landowners listed next to their properties as well as identifying accompanying houses, “fields,” “cotton presses” and slave cabins.
This is a map of six counties of Northeast Mississippi in 1862: Marshall, Tippah, Tishamingo, Lafayette, Pontotoc and Itawamba. It is also includes the names of hundreds of landowners listed next to their properties.
This map shows the area of southern Lafayette, Yalobusha and Pontotoc counties as well as southern Lafayette County. Includes Water Valley, Springdale, Yockna Station (now Taylor), Pontotoc, Tupelo and portions of the “Yoknapatafa” River. It is also a partial mapping of many landholdings in the county and includes the names of many landowners listed next to their properties as well as identifying accompanying houses, “fields,” “mills,” “cotton presses” and slave cabins.
This map shows the area of southern Lafayette, Yalobusha and Pontotoc counties as well as southern Lafayette County. Includes Water Valley, Springdale, Yockna Station (now Taylor), Pontotoc, Tupelo and portions of the “Yoknapatafa” River. It is also a partial mapping of many landholdings in the county and includes the names of many landowners listed next to their properties as well as identifying accompanying houses, “fields,” “mills,” “cotton presses” and slave cabins.
As part of her courseworks as a museum studies minor, University of Mississippi undergraduate Reagan Whittington completed a detailed digital public exhibit about F.A.P. Barnard, Slavery, and the University of Mississippi. Reagan researched and devised this exhibit using ArcGIS StoryMaps under the direction of Professor Anne Twitty. We are delighted to share her work with you.
The University of Mississippi Slavery Research Group, the Center for Archaeological Research, and the Department of Sociology & Anthropology continue their search for evidence of slave life through an excavation on the grounds of Rowan Oak, a National Historic Landmark. Our research interest is in the pre-Faulkner era of the property, from 1848-1865.
The University of Mississippi Slavery Research Group is conducting an archaeological study of the property to find evidence of slave life during the pre-Faulkner era, specifically from the 1840s to the 1860s, when the property belonged to Oxford settler and slaveholder Robert Sheegog.
Sheegog was tied to the University of Mississippi (UM) during its founding. According to records recently unearthed by members of the UM Slavery Research Group (UMSRG), Sheegog regularly hired out his slaves to the University, as did his neighbor and original UM Board of Trustees member Jacob Thompson. Both Thompson and Sheegog owned large plantations in the countryside but also built “home places” for their families in Oxford where they held a smaller number of slaves. Census records reveal that Robert Sheegog claimed nine slaves in Oxford in 1850 and eight slaves in 1860, but we currently have no information about the experiences of these enslaved people or even where their dwellings may have been located on his estate.
We know very little about slavery at the University of Mississippi at the time of its founding. Though recent research by the Slavery Research Group has led to a greater understanding of the role of slavery in the construction of the campus, we hope archaeology will be an avenue for finding more information as it has at the other historic sites of Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the Hermitage in Nashville, Tennessee.
Archaeology at Rowan Oak can tell us about the daily lives of the enslaved people—their diet, activities, personal adornment, religion, and dress. The materials we hope to discover from excavations will tell us more about the African American story at the Sheegog Estate, now known as Rowan Oak. We plan to develop exhibits to provide visitors with a more complete picture of the property history.
Faulkner had direct experience with former slaves and the descendants of slaves during his time at Rowan Oak (1930-1960). He wrote extensively about slavery and the legacies of slavery in his fiction. A deeper understanding of the African American experience on this historic property could lead to a deeper understanding of the Nobel Prize-winning author‘s work.
In order to understand UM’s full history, we need to look for evidence of those who were known, like Sheegog and Thompson, and those who were not recorded in history, like slaves. Archaeological excavation allow us to obtain a fuller picture of mid-19th century life at the University and in Oxford. In doing so, we join other institutions, such as Brown University and the University of Virginia, who have worked to more fully explore and record their past.
In addition to the University of Mississippi Center for Archaeological Research, the Burns-Belfry Museum and Multicultural Center at 710 East Jackson Avenue, Oxford, Mississippi, is a wonderful resource for information about African American life in the Oxford–Lafayette County community.
The UM Slavery Research Group has tried to identify as many enslaved workers on our campus as possible, but names remain elusive and this work continues. To date, we have discovered the names of the following enslaved people. You can read more about each of them by clicking on their names.
Jane was an enslaved woman who was owned by University of Mississippi Chancellor Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard. It is likely that Jane was among the two enslaved women–aged 35 and 30–Chancellor Barnard claimed in the 1860 slave schedules. Jane lived and worked in the Chancellor’s private residence on the campus of the University of Mississippi.
On the evening of May 11, 1859, while Chancellor Barnard and his wife were out of town, student S. B. Humphreys entered the chancellor’s home and raped and beat Jane. After recovering from her injuries, Jane identified her attacker and Chancellor Barnard expelled Humphreys from the University. The punishment enacted upon the student, but not the attack committed upon Jane, became the subject of what is known as “The Branham Affair,” an investigation launched by a local Oxford doctor, H. R. Branham, who leveled charges against the Chancellor for taking the word of an African American female slave over the word of a white male student.
See University of Mississippi, Record of the Testimony and Proceedings in the Matter of the Investigation by the Trustees of the University of Mississippi, on the 1st and 2nd of March, 1860, of the Charges made by H. R. Branham, against the Chancellor of the University (Jackson, Miss.: Mississippi Office, 1860), [page number needed]; Faculty Minutes, Folder 4, 174–178, Archives and Special Collections, J. D. Williams Library, University of Mississippi.
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Luna was an enslaved woman who was owned by University of Mississippi Chancellor Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard. It is likely that Luna was among the two enslaved women–aged 35 and 30–Chancellor Barnard claimed in the 1860 slave schedules.
Her name is documented with Jane and attached to Barnard in records from his time at the University of Alabama cited by Alfred Brophy in his book on the subject.
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The enslaved man George worked as a janitor at the University of Mississippi and was employed by the Phi Sigma Society, one of the antebellum literary societies students at the University of Mississippi were required to join.
George first appeared in the board minutes on July 12, 1849, when the board recognized George, “for performing his duties in a faithful manner,” and gave him “a present” of five dollars for the work he performed during the academic session, approximately nine months. Four years later, on July 13, 1853, George was referenced again. “On motion,” the minutes state,“it was ordered that the [account] of Dr. [John] Millington for services of servant George as janitor be allowed by deduction the time he was sick, and that the Proctor pay the same.”
As a janitor, George’s responsibilities included chopping wood, building fires in each of the buildings each morning, transporting water, and cleaning the dormitories and classrooms.
Given that John Millington, a University of Mississippi faculty member was paid for George’s work, Millington was almost certainly his master. It is likely that George was one of two men–aged 53 and 40–owned by Millington in 1850 and recorded on the 1850 slave schedules.
In addition to the work he did for the University as a whole, George was also one of three slaves employed by Phi Sigma before the Civil War. He worked for the society from approximately May 1849 to November 1849.
The meeting minutes maintained by Phi Sigma indicate that the enslaved men the society hired performed a variety of tasks, including attending the hall, sweeping the floor, cleaning the spittoons, disposing of trash, bringing water for the meeting, and making fires when necessary.
More information about the work enslaved laborers did on behalf of the Phi Sigma Society can be found here.
See Journal of the Board of Trustees, 1845–1860, Florence E. Campbell Transcription, [page numbers needed]. Archives and Special Collections, J. D. Williams Library, University of Mississippi; Phi Sigma Debate Society Meeting Minutes, May 26, 1849, September 29, 1849, November 3, 1849. Archives and Special Collections, J. D. Williams Library, University of Mississippi.
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Henry or Harry was an enslaved man owned by a University of Mississippi professor of Latin and Modern Languages Wilson Gaines Richardson. Henry likely worked in one or more of the stables reserved for faculty on the campus of the University of Mississippi. Henry may have driven a horse and carriage for Professor Richardson or other faculty when they made the short trip into town.
When Chancellor Barnard came under scrutiny during a board of trustees meeting for taking the word of an African American female slave over a white male student, Barnard appealed to Professor Richardson for support with a hypothetical involving Henry. “If your servant Henry were to tell you he had seen a certain student take your horse or saddle from your stable,” Barnard asked Richardson,“would you not believe him?” Professor Richardson responded that he would not trust Henry “over the word of a white man.”
In addition to appearing in the proceedings related to the enslaved woman Jane’s rape by a University of Mississippi student, Henry also appears in the Board of Trustees minutes and the Faculty Minutes. In the latter he is referred to as Harry.
See University of Mississippi, Record of the Testimony and Proceedings in the Matter of the Investigation by the Trustees of the University of Mississippi, on the 1st and 2nd of March, 1860, of the Charges made by H. R. Branham, against the Chancellor of the University (Jackson, Miss.: Mississippi Office, 1860), [page number needed]; Journal of the Minutes of the Board of Trustees of the University of Mississippi, 1845–1860 Florence E. Campbell transcription, 394–409 [double check page number range], Archives and Special Collection, J. D. Williams Library, University of Mississippi; Faculty Minutes, Folder 4, 174–178, Archives and Special Collections, J. D. Williams Library, University of Mississippi.
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John, an enslaved man, was listed alongside another enslaved man named Squash in an 1856 list of proctor drafts appearing in the Journal of the Board of Trustees, which is held in Archives and Special Collections, J. D. Williams Library, University of Mississippi. On September 11, 1856, the University paid $62.60 for services performed by John and Squash.
Rather than the typical description of moneys paid to a slaveholder for slave hire, John and Squash received payment directly from the University for making repairs. In such circumstances, enslaved people would have been expected to carry and deliver the money they received to their masters for the work they themselves had performed at the University.
See Journal of the Board of Trustees, 1845–1860, Florence E. Campbell Transcription, 322. Archives and Special Collections, J. D. Williams Library, University of Mississippi.
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Squash, an enslaved man, was listed alongside another enslaved man named John in an 1856 list of proctor drafts appearing in the Journal of the Board of Trustees, which is held in Archives and Special Collections, J. D. Williams Library, University of Mississippi. On September 11, 1856, the University paid $62.60 for services performed by Squash and John.
Rather than the typical description of moneys paid to a slaveholder for slave hire, Squash and John received payment directly from the University for making repairs. In such circumstances, enslaved people would have been expected to carry and deliver the money they received to their masters for the work they themselves had performed at the University.
Although Squash may seem like an unusual name, it was a common adaptation of the West African day name Quashee, meaning Sunday, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
See Journal of the Board of Trustees, 1845–1860, Florence E. Campbell Transcription, 322. Archives and Special Collections, J. D. Williams Library, University of Mississippi.
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Moses, an enslaved man, appears in an 1856 list of proctor drafts appearing in the Journal of the Board of Trustees, which is held in Archives and Special Collections, J. D. Williams Library, University of Mississippi. On September 12, 1856, the University paid $31.10 for the services he had performed.
Rather than the typical description of moneys paid to a slaveholder for slave hire, Moses received payment directly from the University for making repairs. In such circumstances, enslaved people would have been expected to carry and deliver the money they received to their masters for the work they themselves had performed at the University.
See Journal of the Board of Trustees, 1845–1860, Florence E. Campbell Transcription, 325. Archives and Special Collections, J. D. Williams Library, University of Mississippi.
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Will, an enslaved man, appears in an 1856 list of proctor drafts appearing in the Journal of the Board of Trustees, which is held in Archives and Special Collections, J. D. Williams Library, University of Mississippi. On September 12, 1856, the University paid $11.25 for the services he had performed. He was specifically referenced as “Wendle’s Will,” which suggests that his master’s last name at the time was Wendle.
Rather than the typical description of moneys paid to a slaveholder for slave hire, Will received payment directly from the University for making repairs. In such circumstances, enslaved people would have been expected to carry and deliver the money they received to their masters for the work they themselves had performed at the University.
See Journal of the Board of Trustees, 1845–1860, Florence E. Campbell Transcription, 328. Archives and Special Collections, J. D. Williams Library, University of Mississippi.
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Nathan was an enslaved man owned by University of Mississippi Chancellor Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard.
Sometime prior to Nathan’s death on Sunday, January 15, 1860, Nathan secretly buried a stash of valuables in the earthen floor of the cellar beneath the chancellor’s house on the University’s campus. On the night of Nathan’s funeral someone with whom Nathan had entrusted the whereabouts of his collection entered the cellar and retrieved the stash from the cellar floor. The next day the chancellor discovered that Nathan’s “little hoard” had been dug up from beneath his house. Frustrated that someone had “feloniously” entered his cellar under the cover of darkness, the chancellor confessed, “Until the thing was done, I had not heard, myself, where he [Nathan] had placed it.”
See Hilgard Collection, Folder 5, Archives and Special Collections, J. D. Williams Library, University of Mississippi.
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Simon was an enslaved man hired by the Phi Sigma Society, one of the antebellum literary societies students at the University of Mississippi were required to join. Simon was one of three slaves employed by Phi Sigma before the Civil War. He worked for the society from approximately December 1852 to June 1854.
The meeting minutes maintained by Phi Sigma indicate that the enslaved men the society hired performed a variety of tasks, including attending the hall, sweeping the floor, cleaning the spittoons, disposing of trash, bringing water for the meeting, and making fires when necessary.
More information about the work enslaved laborers did on behalf of the Phi Sigma Society can be found here.
See Phi Sigma Debate Society Meeting Minutes, December 11, 1852, January 14, 1854, June 10, 1854. Archives and Special Collections, J. D. Williams Library, University of Mississippi.
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Isaac was an enslaved man hired by the Phi Sigma Society, one of the antebellum literary societies students at the University of Mississippi were required to join. Isaac was one of three slaves employed by Phi Sigma before the Civil War. He worked on behalf of the society from approximately December 1849 to June 1850.
The meeting minutes maintained by Phi Sigma indicate that the enslaved men the society hired performed a variety of tasks, including attending the hall, sweeping the floor, cleaning the spittoons, disposing of trash, bringing water for the meeting, and making fires when necessary.
More information about the work enslaved laborers did on behalf of the Phi Sigma Society can be found here.
See Phi Sigma Debate Society Meeting Minutes, December 8, 1849, February 9, 1850, May 11, 1850, June 15, 1850. Archives and Special Collections, J. D. Williams Library, University of Mississippi.
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Harrison Stearns was an enslaved man owned by University of Mississippi law professor William Forbes Stearns. It is not clear what if any work he did for the University specifically, rather than for Professor Stearns, or whether he resided on campus.
When Professor Stearns left the University of Mississippi at the start of the Civil War, he entrusted Harrison Stearns with the maintenance of his property. In 1865, after it became clear that Professor Stearns would not return to Oxford, he promised to convey at least some of this land to Harrison. Two years later, upon Professor Stearns’ suicide, Harrison wrote two letters to Professor Stearns’ widow to ensure the property would be legally transferred to him.
At least a portion of the land Harrison Stearns obtained from his former master was deeded to the Methodist Episcopal Church of Oxford in 1869, and became home to one of the city’s first black churches. The building that was constructed on this land in 1910 is today the Burns-Belfry Museum & Multicultural Center dedicated to African American history.
We know little about Harrison Stearns after this episode, but it seems that he also served as an alderman in Oxford at some point during Reconstruction.
See Harrison Stearns to Mary Jane Ferris Stearns, 16 November 1867, The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945, GLC08945.01; Harrison Stearns to Mary Jane Ferris Stearns, 14 January 1868, The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945, GLC08945.02.
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Alfred is listed in the NARA “Confederate Slave Payrolls”record for Oxford from Oct. – Dec. 1862 found on: Slave Rolls Project | A Digital Project in Progress | Dr. Adam Domby (adamhdomby.com) under the name of enslaver W.F. Burton. Alfred was an enslaved laborer working for the Confederate Army at the “University Hospital at Oxford, MS”
The records show that W.F. Burton was paid $15.33 for Alfred’s labor of 23 days from Oct 1 to Oct 23, 1862. They also show “Reported for 3 days only-$2.00” indicating that Burton may also have permitted Alfred to earn a small amount of his own money on the side.
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Isham is listed in the NARA “Confederate Slave Payrolls”record for Oxford from Oct. – Dec. 1862 found on: Slave Rolls Project | A Digital Project in Progress | Dr. Adam Domby (adamhdomby.com) under the name of enslaver W.F. Burton. Isham was an enslaved laborer working for the Confederate Army at the “University Hospital at Oxford, MS”
The records show that W.F. Burton was paid $6.66 for Isham’s labor of 10 days from Oct 1 to Oct 10, 1862.
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Jim listed in the NARA “Confederate Slave Payrolls”record for Oxford from Oct. – Dec. 1862 found on: Slave Rolls Project | A Digital Project in Progress | Dr. Adam Domby (adamhdomby.com) under the name of enslaver Felix Lanier. Jim was an enslaved laborer working for the Confederate Army at the “University Hospital at Oxford, MS”
The records show that Felix Lanier was paid $549.00 on November 14, 1862 and another $180.00 on November 30, 1862 for the work of “his nine Negroes: Jim, Haywood, Stephen, Andrew, Big George, George, Peter, Willis, Adam” conducted between July 27 and Oct 31, 1862 and again between Nov 1 and Nov 31, 1862.
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Haywood is listed in the NARA “Confederate Slave Payrolls”record for Oxford from Oct. – Dec. 1862 found on: Slave Rolls Project | A Digital Project in Progress | Dr. Adam Domby (adamhdomby.com) under the name of enslaver Felix Lanier. Haywood was an enslaved laborer working for the Confederate Army at the “University Hospital at Oxford, MS”
The records show that Felix Lanier was paid $549.00 on November 14, 1862 and another $180.00 on November 30, 1862 for the work of “his nine Negroes: Jim, Haywood, Stephen, Andrew, Big George, George, Peter, Willis, Adam” conducted between July 27 and Oct 31, 1862 and again between Nov 1 and Nov 31, 1862.
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Stephen is listed in the NARA “Confederate Slave Payrolls”record for Oxford from Oct. – Dec. 1862 found on: Slave Rolls Project | A Digital Project in Progress | Dr. Adam Domby (adamhdomby.com) under the name of enslaver Felix Lanier. Stephen was an enslaved laborer working for the Confederate Army at the “University Hospital at Oxford, MS”
The records show that Felix Lanier was paid $549.00 on November 14, 1862 and another $180.00 on November 30, 1862 for the work of “his nine Negroes: Jim, Haywood, Stephen, Andrew, Big George, George, Peter, Willis, Adam” conducted between July 27 and Oct 31, 1862 and again between Nov 1 and Nov 31, 1862.
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Andrew is listed in the NARA “Confederate Slave Payrolls”record for Oxford from Oct. – Dec. 1862 found on: Slave Rolls Project | A Digital Project in Progress | Dr. Adam Domby (adamhdomby.com) under the name of enslaver Felix Lanier. Andrew was an enslaved laborer working for the Confederate Army at the “University Hospital at Oxford, MS”
The records show that Felix Lanier was paid $549.00 on November 14, 1862 and another $180.00 on November 30, 1862 for the work of “his nine Negroes: Jim, Haywood, Stephen, Andrew, Big George, George, Peter, Willis, Adam” conducted between July 27 and Oct 31, 1862 and again between Nov 1 and Nov 31, 1862.
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Big George is listed in the NARA “Confederate Slave Payrolls”record for Oxford from Oct. – Dec. 1862 found on: Slave Rolls Project | A Digital Project in Progress | Dr. Adam Domby (adamhdomby.com) under the name of enslaver Felix Lanier. Big George was an enslaved laborer working for the Confederate Army at the “University Hospital at Oxford, MS”
The records show that Felix Lanier was paid $549.00 on November 14, 1862 and another $180.00 on November 30, 1862 for the work of “his nine Negroes: Jim, Haywood, Stephen, Andrew, Big George, George, Peter, Willis, Adam” conducted between July 27 and Oct 31, 1862 and again between Nov 1 and Nov 31, 1862.
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George is listed in the NARA “Confederate Slave Payrolls”record for Oxford from Oct. – Dec. 1862 found on: Slave Rolls Project | A Digital Project in Progress | Dr. Adam Domby (adamhdomby.com) under the name of enslaver Felix Lanier. George was an enslaved laborer working for the Confederate Army at the “University Hospital at Oxford, MS” which was located on campus.
The records show that Felix Lanier was paid $549.00 on November 14, 1862 and another $180.00 on November 30, 1862 for the work of “his nine Negroes: Jim, Haywood, Stephen, Andrew, Big George, George, Peter, Willis, Adam” conducted between July 27 and Oct 31, 1862 and again between Nov 1 and Nov 31, 1862.
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Peter is listed in the NARA “Confederate Slave Payrolls”record for Oxford from Oct. – Dec. 1862 found on: Slave Rolls Project | A Digital Project in Progress | Dr. Adam Domby (adamhdomby.com) under the name of enslaver Felix Lanier. Peter was an enslaved laborer working for the Confederate Army at the “University Hospital at Oxford, MS” located on campus.
The records show that Felix Lanier was paid $549.00 on November 14, 1862 and another $180.00 on November 30, 1862 for the work of “his nine Negroes: Jim, Haywood, Stephen, Andrew, Big George, George, Peter, Willis, Adam” conducted between July 27 and Oct 31, 1862 and again between Nov 1 and Nov 31, 1862.
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Willis is listed in the NARA “Confederate Slave Payrolls”record for Oxford from Oct. – Dec. 1862 found on: Slave Rolls Project | A Digital Project in Progress | Dr. Adam Domby (adamhdomby.com) under the name of enslaver Felix Lanier. Willis was an enslaved laborer working for the Confederate Army at the “University Hospital at Oxford, MS” located on campus.
The records show that Felix Lanier was paid $549.00 on November 14, 1862 and another $180.00 on November 30, 1862 for the work of “his nine Negroes: Jim, Haywood, Stephen, Andrew, Big George, George, Peter, Willis, Adam” conducted between July 27 and Oct 31, 1862 and again between Nov 1 and Nov 31, 1862.
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Adam is listed in the NARA “Confederate Slave Payrolls”record for Oxford from Oct. – Dec. 1862 found on: Slave Rolls Project | A Digital Project in Progress | Dr. Adam Domby (adamhdomby.com) under the name of enslaver Felix Lanier. Adam was an enslaved laborer working for the Confederate Army at the “University Hospital at Oxford, MS” located on campus.
The records show that Felix Lanier was paid $549.00 on November 14, 1862 and another $180.00 on November 30, 1862 for the work of “his nine Negroes: Jim, Haywood, Stephen, Andrew, Big George, George, Peter, Willis, Adam” conducted between July 27 and Oct 31, 1862 and again between Nov 1 and Nov 31, 1862.
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Isaac is listed in the NARA “Confederate Slave Payrolls”record for Oxford from Oct. – Dec. 1862 found on: Slave Rolls Project | A Digital Project in Progress | Dr. Adam Domby (adamhdomby.com) under the name of enslaver A. Kendrick. Isaac was an enslaved laborer working for the Confederate Army at the “University Hospital at Oxford, MS” located on campus.
The records show that A. Kendrick was paid $157.32 on November 30, 1862 for the work as “teamsters” of “his four Negroes: Isaac, Tom, Nelson, and Jack” conducted between Oct 3 and Nov 30, 1862.
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Tom is listed in the NARA “Confederate Slave Payrolls”record for Oxford from Oct. – Dec. 1862 found on: Slave Rolls Project | A Digital Project in Progress | Dr. Adam Domby (adamhdomby.com) under the name of enslaver A. Kendrick. Tom was an enslaved laborer working for the Confederate Army at the “University Hospital at Oxford, MS” located on campus.
The records show that A. Kendrick was paid $157.32 on November 30, 1862 for the work as “teamsters” of “his four Negroes: Isaac, Tom, Nelson, and Jack” conducted between Oct 3 and Nov 30, 1862.
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Nelson is listed in the NARA “Confederate Slave Payrolls”record for Oxford from Oct. – Dec. 1862 found on: Slave Rolls Project | A Digital Project in Progress | Dr. Adam Domby (adamhdomby.com) under the name of enslaver A. Kendrick. Nelson was an enslaved laborer working for the Confederate Army at the “University Hospital at Oxford, MS” located on campus.
The records show that A. Kendrick was paid $157.32 on November 30, 1862 for the work as “teamsters” of “his four Negroes: Isaac, Tom, Nelson, and Jack” conducted between Oct 3 and Nov 30, 1862.
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Jack is listed in the NARA “Confederate Slave Payrolls”record for Oxford from Oct. – Dec. 1862 found on: Slave Rolls Project | A Digital Project in Progress | Dr. Adam Domby (adamhdomby.com) under the name of enslaver A. Kendrick. Jack was an enslaved laborer working for the Confederate Army at the “University Hospital at Oxford, MS” located on campus.
The records show that A. Kendrick was paid $157.32 on November 30, 1862 for the work as “teamsters” of “his four Negroes: Isaac, Tom, Nelson, and Jack” conducted between Oct 3 and Nov 30, 1862.
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Henry is listed in the NARA “Confederate Slave Payrolls”record for Oxford from Oct. – Dec. 1862 found on: Slave Rolls Project | A Digital Project in Progress | Dr. Adam Domby (adamhdomby.com) under the name of enslaver E.A. David whose occupation is listed as “Cook”
Henry was an enslaved laborer working for the Confederate Army at the “University Hospital at Oxford, Mississippi” as a “Nurse”… “employed to care for the sick who could not be moved…”
The record, signed by “Surgeon Thomas D. Isom, C.S.A” shows that E.A. David was paid $10.54 for Henry’s labor of 14 days from June 14 to Jun 30, 1862.
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Chaney is listed in the NARA “Confederate Slave Payrolls”record for Oxford from Oct. – Dec. 1862 found on: Slave Rolls Project | A Digital Project in Progress | Dr. Adam Domby (adamhdomby.com) under the name of enslaver E.A. David whose occupation is listed as “Cook”
Chaney was an enslaved laborer working for the Confederate Army at the “University Hospital at Oxford, Mississippi” as a “Cook”… “employed to care for the sick who could not be moved…”
The record, signed by “Surgeon Thomas D. Isom, C.S.A” shows that E.A. David was paid $10.54 for Chaney’s labor of 14 days from June 14 to Jun 30, 1862.
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Inlian (or Indian) is listed in the NARA “Confederate Slave Payrolls”record for Oxford from Oct. – Dec. 1862 found on: Slave Rolls Project | A Digital Project in Progress | Dr. Adam Domby (adamhdomby.com) under the name of enslaver E.A. David whose occupation is listed as “Cook”
Inlian was an enslaved laborer working for the Confederate Army at the “University Hospital at Oxford, Mississippi” as a “Nurse”… “employed to care for the sick who could not be moved…”
The record, signed by “Surgeon Thomas D. Isom, C.S.A” shows that E.A. David was paid $10.54 for Inlian’s labor of 14 days from June 14 to Jun 30, 1862.
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Aleck is listed in the NARA “Confederate Slave Payrolls”record for Oxford from Oct. – Dec. 1862 found on: Slave Rolls Project | A Digital Project in Progress | Dr. Adam Domby (adamhdomby.com) under the name of enslaver E.A. David whose occupation is listed as “Cook”
Aleck was an enslaved laborer working for the Confederate Army at the “University Hospital at Oxford, Mississippi” as a “Nurse”… “employed to care for the sick who could not be moved…”
The record, signed by “Surgeon Thomas D. Isom, C.S.A” shows that E.A. David was paid $10.54 for Aleck’s labor of 14 days from June 14 to Jun 30, 1862.
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