This collection is comprised of a singe academic paper that covers enslaved African American families in the Augusta area. The narrative particularly discusses John Hope, an Augusta-born African American educator.

A photocopy of the 1852 Augusta City Census contaning record of the population in the city, including ethnicity, household information, migration information, enslaved people, property, and servants.

This collection is comprised of miscellaneous legal records and correspondence relating to individuals and families in Burke County, Georgia. The majority of documents relate to the buying and selling of real estate, and includes deeds, trust deeds,  and plot maps describing property lines. Also included are indentures, and letters related to these legal arrangements.

This collection is comprised of 5 cardboard backed photographs depicting scenes of Augusta from 1850-1899, taken by Charles Carroll Paine as he travelled to Federal Point, Florida. Also includes an excerpt from Paine's travel diary.

Bills, lists of property, account receipts, deeds, correspondence, mortgage, checks

This collection is comprised of legal and financail records detailing the purchase of several enslaved people in Richmond County, Georgia. Collection is primarily made up of deed of sales and general legal papers, including materials on freed slaves in the area.

Collection includes: slave bills of sale, Georgia land deeds; including Cherokee,  Wilkes, Richmond, Columbia, Greene, Wilkinson, Jefferson, Burke, Screven, Washington, and Early Counties, and cities Augusta and Savannah, South Carolina land deeds; including Edgefield, Granville, Effingham, Barnwell, and Aiken Counties and Beech Island and Newberry District, Georgia Legal Papers, South Carolina Legal Papers, and Confederate and Military Papers

Reminiscences of Old South, a typed speech by an unkown author. Some poems included.

Records of individuals owning enslaved persons.  Many records note the names of the enslaved persons.

One document, dated Augusta, Apri 26 1834, records a payment of two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars for 5 slaves; Richard - 15 years old,Tabby and her three children, a boy [?roy] - seven years, a girl Laura - five years, and a boy [suckling] James, from L.B. [Morrisore] to B.B. Miller. One document, dated 1840, no location.  [Leaving] to S.A. [  ] Memorandum of Negro [  ] for 1840.  A list of names and prices are given. Both items are affixed to mats.

This document documents a course case between John Howard and his young slave, Martha, who was accused of attempting to burn down his property in Augusta, Georgia. Martha denied the accustation. Verdict of case unknown.