African Americans--Enslaved People

While Cambridge Dictionary defines an enslaved person as "a person who is legally owned by someone else and has no personal freedom" (Cambridge Dictionary), CWRGM adopts the term for the people who were subjected to the practice of race-based enslavement in the nineteenth-century United States chattel slavery system. Slavery in the United States varied greatly over time and geography. However, its most common form was that of race-based chattel slavery in which people of African descent were viewed and treated as property.

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Letter from Robert S. Hudson to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames; July 27, 1868
Letter from Anne Mataw to the Mississippi Legislature; December 2, 1859
Letter to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; November 30, 1859
Letter from James Phelan to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; March 5, 1860
Letter from discharged soldier to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; October 3, 1862
Letter from D. W. Rogers to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; April 24, 1863
Letter from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; February 15, 1860
Letter from Spencer Adams to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; February 20, 1860
Letter from J. E. Taliaferro to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; August 21, 1860
Letter from John Cowdan to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; September 23, 1860
Report from the Mississippi Lunatic Asylum to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; November 1, 1860
Letter from H. O. R. to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; November 18, 1860
Letter from F. R. Witter to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; December 9, 1860
Letter from L. C. Martin to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; December 8, 1860
Letter from W. C. Falkner to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; December 28, 1860
Report from William L. Harris to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; December 31, 1860
Report of Jacob Thompson to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; December 26, 1860
Letter from Charles B. New to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; January 14, 1861
Letter from the Texas Committee of Public Safety to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; February 25, 1861
Letter to President Jefferson Davis; February 22, 1861
Resolutions from the workingmen of Massachusetts; February 20, 1861
Letter from Mayor George H. Paul to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; March 12, 1861
Letter to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; April 30, 1861
Letter from Jno. B. Harnley to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; May 4, 1861
Letter from Benjamin F. Chapman to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; May 10, 1861