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Letter, N. H. Boyd to Eudora Hobbs; 1/13/1861

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Letter to Eudora Hobbs in Salem, North Carolina, from her cousin, N. H. Boyd, in Jackson, Mississippi, regarding Christmas happenings and other family news. Boyd mentions a postponed hanging of two slaves, one for killing an overseer and one for stealing. She also writes about Mississippi's secession from the Union. 1861.

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Mississippi State University. Libraries

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. Christmas
  2. Hanging
  3. Lynching
  4. Mississippi
  5. Secession
  6. Slaver
  7. Slavery

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