Record book with information about enslaved people owned by Hugh Torrance
date: label: Date
content: 1850-1864
name: label: Written by
content: Hugh Torrance, American, born 1810
notes: label: Description
content: Leather bound volume with ruled interior pages containing records of the people enslaved by Hugh Torrance of Yalobusha County, Mississippi. The front cover has text handwritten in black ink reading "Negro Record." The interior text is handwritten in ink and graphite with information including enslaved people inherited by Torrance from his father as well as those he purchased and sold. There is also a notation about several enslaved men who "left for Yankee land" in December 1862. Several pages contain lists of people grouped as family units, including birth and death dates of parents and children in most cases. The birth dates reach as far back as the first decade of the 1800s, but the record appears to have been written in the 1850s up to 1864. A loose sheet of paper used as a blotter is folded and tucked between pages near the front of the book. Around 30 of the approximately 100 pages have writing, with those containing writing scattered throughout rather than concentrated in one section of the book.
place: label: Place used
content: Yalobusha County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: American South
label: Topic
content: Families
label: Topic
content: Finance
label: Topic
content: Slavery
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 1815-1861
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, Civil War, 1861-1865
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Liljenquist Family Collection
label: Classification
content: Slavery and Freedom Objects
label: Classification
content: Documents and Manuscripts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Liljenquist Family Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2016.166.36.2
objectType: label: Type
content: property records
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink and graphite on paper, leather
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (closed): 7 5/16 × 4 3/4 × 7/16 in. (18.6 × 12.1 × 1.1 cm)