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Gerdine, Roxana Chapin, 1833-1891

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Identifier

MUM00683, 1.10

Recipient

Emily McKinstry Chapin

Publication Date

1859

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Roxana writes of the raising of Tom Cobb Gerdine and southern children in general; her worries about bringing a slave north to visit with her because of their father's abolitionist views; talking off of her mourning (probably for her brother, Titus Chapin, Jr.) Emily's upcoming marriage (William Day Chapin); the "General"(William L.C. Gerdine) wanting to buy a Texas plantation and her opposition to it

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Slavery; Slaves; Child rearing; Antislavery movements; Southern States -- Identity; Plantation life; Gerdine, Thomas Cobb; Gerdine, William Louis Crawford, d. 1878; Marriage; Travel; Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century ; Plantation life -- Southern States -- History; Confederate States of America

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Archival Material

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correspondence

City

Athens (Ga.)

Original Collection

Roxana Chapin Gerdine Collection, Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries

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A.L. (6 p.)

Also included in the Civil War in the American South collection.

Roxana Chapin Gerdine to Emily McKinstry Chapin (19 May 1859-1861)

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