Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Lewis Plantation Papers, #2528, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift 1942

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Jordan, April 2011

This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Agriculture--Alabama--History.
• Ashe Place (Ala.)
• Bleak House (Ala.)
• Cotton--Alabama--History.
• Drake House (Ala.)
• Gholson Place (Ala.)
• Hale County (Ala.)--History.
• Hardee Place (Ala.)
• Hermitage Place (Ala.)
• Lawyers--Alabama--History.
• Lewis family.
• Lewis, Ivey Foreman, 1833-1884.
• Marengo County (Ala.)--History.
• Moss Grove (Ala.)
• Plantation life--Alabama.
• Plantation owners--Alabama.
• Plantations--Alabama--Hale County.
• Plantations--Alabama--Marengo County.
• Slave records--Alabama.
• Slavery--Alabama.

The Lewis family, of Hale and Marengo counties, Ala., owned several plantations before and after the Civil War.

The collection is the records of several plantations owned by the Lewis family, chiefly those of Ivey Foreman Lewis. Plantations mentioned include: Hermitage Place, Gholson Place, Bleak House, Drake House, Ashe Place, Moss Grove, and Hardee Place. Volumes constitute the majority of the collection and record work done, cotton picked, slave births and deaths, food and clothing issued, accounts with laborers, plantation expenses, inventories, and other items. They are primarily plantation records, day books, personal accountings. Loose papers include contracts with freedmen, bills for medical care for laborers, accounts for other services and for merchandise purchased, and slight correspondence.