The collection includes minutes, photographs, and miscellaneous notes and articleson Anne Spencer (1882-1975). Also included is a taped lecture on Anne Spencer given byGeorge A. Shepperson in 1986, a taped inventory of the Spencer home by ChaunceySpencer, and papers regarding the court case between the Friends of Anne SpencerMemorial Foundation and the Anne Spencer Memorial Foundation over disposition of theproperty at 1313 Pierce Street, Lynchburg, Virginia.
Digital scan of document entitled "Registry of Negroes, Ages-Births-Sales as December 12th, 1858". The two-page typewritten document is held at Jones Memorial Library in manuscript collection 1793, the Blackford Family Collection.
The document names and enumerates 21 enslaved persons from the Blackford estate in 1858. First names are listed; no surnames are listed.
Although the list is titled as of December 12, 1858, it includes the names of enslaved persons born after that point in time and therefore appears to be a list of persons enslaved by Blackford until their emancipation at the end of the Civil War.
Named enslaved persons include: William (Big Bill), Gabe, Alley, William, Jack, Thomas, Maria, Jane, Jenney, Ellen, Mary, Dick, Henry, William, Fanny, Caroline, Becky, Henry, Beverly, Caleb, and Charles.
Of the 21 enslaved persons on the list, three are named William (ages 37 years, 25 years, and 4 years) and two are named Henry (one aged 6 years and one born March 1858).
In addition to the names of the enslaved persons the list includes two typed notes, with one note mentioning a colt.
Anne Spencer Memorial Foundation, Inc. Papers Held At Jones Memorial Library In Lynchburg, Virginia. The Papers Include Minutes, Photographs, Notes, And Articles About Harlem Renaissance Poet And Lynchburg Resident Anne Spencer.
