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- GLC#
- GLC08945.01-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- November 16, 1867
- Author/Creator
- Stearns, Harrison, fl. 1868
- Title
- to Mary Jane Ferris Stearns
- Place Written
- Oxford, Mississippi
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 19.5 cm, Width: 24.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
In response to a letter from Mary, the wife of his former master, William F. Stearns, Harrison, a freed slave, offers condolence for William's death and inquires about a gift of land William promised him. Writes in part: "You said something bout conveying my lots to me. I had just write to mass Wiliam a little before his death...he promest to convey to me as soon as he could be satisfied that the laws of Miss. would allow colored people to hold land. Colored people has the same right to hold land as the white people."
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