Finding Aid for the Locust Grove Plantation Slave Ledger (MUM00275)
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Administrative Information
Processing Information
Collection processed by Archives and Special Collections staff. Finding aid encoded by Kathryn Michaelis, January 2012.
Additions
No further additions are expected to this collection.
Subject Terms
Formats
Historical Note
Locust Grove Plantation was located in Jefferson County, Miss. The plantation was founded in 1777 under the name Mount Locust; the name was changed by Samuel Postlethwait when he purchased the plantation.
Scope and Content Note
The collection is a ledger, 1825-1845, containing the names, marriages, births, and deaths of slaves on the Locust Grove Plantation in Jefferson County, Miss. The ledger also contains cotton harvest data for each slave. Some pages contain pasted-in newspaper articles, mostly discussing agricultural and domestic techniques and advice.
Enclosed with the ledger is an article written about the ledger:
Barney, D., & Flesher, D.L. (1994). Early nineteenth-century productivity accounting: the Locust Grove Plantation Ledger. Accounting, Business and Financial History, 4(2), 275-294.
User Information
Preferred Citation
Locust Grove Plantation Slave Ledger, Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi
Access Restrictions
The Locust Grove Plantation Slave Ledger is open for research.
Copyright Restrictions
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement.
Volume is extremely fragile. Please ask for assistance.
Related Material
Postlethwaite (A.J.) Records. Collection number M39. McCain Library and Archives, University of Southern Mississippi.
Container List
| Box 1 | Ledger, 1825-1845 | ||||||||||||||||||