Two letters to Bolling Hall, one from his oldest son, Bolling, and the other from his wife, Mary Louisa.
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@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130
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In the letters, Hall's son and wife discuss family illness, weather, crops, livestock, and slaves on their plantation. Mary also mentions her husband's possible attendance at the convention of delegates from proslavery states in Nashville, Tennessee, and she adds that "[t]here is great interest here as you may suppose, upon the compromise question."
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1850 June 2 1850 06 02
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Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130Keywords
- African Americans
- Alabama
- Climate
- Compromise Of 1850
- Diseases
- Government
- Hall, Bolling, 1813 1897
- Hall, Bolling, 1837 1866
- Hall, Mary L. (Mary Louisa Crenshaw), Ca.1815 1858
- Legislation
- Livestock
- Plantation Life
- Politics And Government
- Slaver
- Slavery
- Southern Convention (1850 : Nashville, Tenn.)
- United States