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Title
List of Avery Family Servants
Description
This list in the back of a volume kept by Sara Avery Leeds about her
wedding gives the names of numerous "servants" who worked for the family
before and after slavery. The earliest notations seem to have been made in
1885, but there are also annotations and lists dated as late as 1908. Of
particular note are the names of slaves who accompanied the Avery Family
during their refugee experience, as well as a list of servants (called
"contrabands" in the document, perhaps sarcastically or perhaps in
reference to freedpeople who had been located on the plantation during the
family's absence) who worked for the family after their return.
Source
Avery Family Papers, Records of the Antebellum Southern Plantations, Series J, Part 5, Reel 11, Frames 988-991
Publisher
Published here by W. Caleb McDaniel
Date
ca. 1885 and 1904
Rights
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Format
PDF
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
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