Title: Hollowell Family Papers ledger

Identifier: 0578-b2   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/79504)

Description: 376 page handwritten ledger documenting C. W. Hollowell's business interests. Includes allotments of food to freed, previously enslaved people, (1866), rates for ditching, expenses of farms, cost of building a house, work accounts, and wage agreements. Also included are lists (pp. 47, 56-58) of enslaved persons taken by Union troops in 1862 and 1863, giving name, age, and valuation, and a list (p. 298) of enslaved persons who remained on various plantations of enslaver James C. Johnston throughout the Civil War. The exposure of the scans has been adjusted to provide better readability of light text.