Overview A bill of sale for an enslaved person named Loney, bought from J. A. Bisaner of Lincolnton, N.C.; by N. A. Wingate of Charlotte, N.C., dated January 2, 1865, for $6000.00.

Scope and Contents In this first of four interviews, Harold Pulley, North Carolina native and alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, begins by discussing his family background including his father's acquisition of farmland in return for construction labor, his mother's education and personality, and his maternal grandfather's parentage and role in helping slaves escape, fighting in the Civil War, and bootlegging. He recalls how his father's stories about the African-American experience during...

Overview The collection contains a wide variety of materials, including a slave bill-of-sale, letters, land conveyancing papers for land for the Andrew Jackson historic site, DAR papers for the Mecklenburg Chapter, and obituaries for Henderson family members (Willis Irwin Henderson and Perrin Quarles Henderson).

Abstract Collection of unrelated manuscripts, containing letters from Edwin Arlington Robinson (1922) and James Boyd (1926) and a bill of sale (1835) for a slave in Pasquotank County, N.C.