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Letter from Harriet Dellet in Claiborne, Alabama, to her husband, James, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130

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In the letter she discusses supplying their slaves with winter clothes; the cotton and corn harvests and hog killing on the plantation; the upcoming presidential campaign, in which Andrew Jackson will not run; a new law in Louisiana prohibiting the introduction of slaves into the state; and local reports of rebellious slaves.
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Text
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600 Ppi Tiff
Created Date:
1831 December 18 1831 12 18
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Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130