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Prime Woodfin [enslaved] to Nicholas Woodfin

Prime Woodfin [enslaved] to Nicholas Woodfin

Item Information

Title

Prime Woodfin [enslaved] to Nicholas Woodfin

Subject

Slave to Owner

Description

Letter from slave (Price Woodfin) mining for gold in California. Reports that his young master is returning home from California. Slave requests to remain there, and includes note for wife and children at end of letter.

Source

Nicholas Washington Woodfin papers, 1795-1919, 1950.
1689

Date

25 April 1853

Identifier

01689_0004_0002
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