Gideon Palmer memoir of travel in Virginia and Alabama : manuscript.

Connecticut?, circa 1835.

1 item (41 pages)

English

Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Hall Park McCullough Fund, 2012.

This material is open for research.

Gideon Palmer (1793-1854), born in Montville, Connecticut, was a manufacturer of cottonseed oil.

Holograph manuscript memoir, with revisions, describing travel in Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, in 1830, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1833, seeking opportunities for the manufacture of cottonseed oil. Palmer discusses his opposition to slavery and to the use of slave labor in cottonseed oil mills; records conversations with slaveholders and enslaved people; and describes his observations of the slave trade in Richmond, Virginia, and customs of the Southern States including dueling.

October 14, 2019

Gideon Palmer memoir of travel in Virginia and Alabama. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Gideon Palmer memoir of travel in Virginia and Alabama. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Memoirs - Connecticut - 19th century.