Box 1

Scope and Contents Letters of William H. W. Barnwell to family and friends, the earliest one being from him in Litchfield, Connecticut (1826), wanting to know of life in Beaufort, South Carolina. With later letters (1832-1833), many to Horace Day, Catskill, New York, re his religious conversion, temperance for slaves on his plantation, his religious life and thought, his progress in taking religious orders, being called as a minister to Pendleton, South Carolina, mentioning being "born again," freeing slaves...