the life of a free black. Boon could not write; the letters of his wife and brother are marginally literate but legible.
Aaron Burtin Hunter Collection, 1878-1937 (PC 142)
Papers of A. B. Hunter, Episcopal minister and principal (1891-1916) of St. Augustine's School (later St. Augustine's College), Raleigh, and of his wife. Correspondence concerns his activities as principal of St. Augustine's and Mrs. Hunter's contribution to the founding of St. Agnes Hospital. Hunter's diaries contain notes of European trips, vacation travels in America, speaking tours on behalf of St. Augustine's, church records, and school functions and appointments. Also included is a file of St. Augustine's Record for 1905-1917 and 1924-1926.
James Henry Harris Papers, 1848, 1864-1890, 1967 (PC 1319)
Papers of Harris, a free black man from Granville County, who attended school in Oberlin, Ohio. He was a recruiting officer for black troops in Indiana during the Civil War and served in the North Carolina General Assembly in 1868, 1872, and 1883. Papers include affidavit proving Harris was a free black, appointment as recruiting officer in Indiana to raise black troops, material relating to the Union League, appointment to solicit for the "Boston Fund" to supplement appropriations of the Freedmen's Bureau, appointment as a commissioner of Raleigh, notification of election as a presidential elector (1872), broadsides and endorsements of Harris as candidate for Congress and as delegate to Republican National conventions.
J. M. Pickell Collection, 1896-1920 (PC 1434)
Papers of Dr. James Marion Pickell (1850-1921), teacher of chemistry at the Leonard Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy, Shaw University, Raleigh, and a feed chemist in the State Department of Agriculture. Material includes seventeen roll books, 1896-1913, with notations by Dr. Pickell in several of them; catalog for the Leonard Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy (1902-1903), which lists the faculty and students for both schools as well as graduates (medicine, 1886-1902, and pharmacy, 1893-1902).
Ozette Pittman Bell Collection, 1856, 1922-1940 (PC 1622).
Family papers, including a Nash County certificate showing Mrs. Elizabeth Boon who was a free black woman of Halifax (1856); monthly attendance reports (1922-1923) by Mrs. Almyra Boone Pittman, principal of a black school in Enfield; her membership card in the Negro Teachers' Association (1940); and letter of recommendation for Carey Pittman, who built schools from 1922 to 1928.
Slave Collection, 1748-1856 (PC 1629)
Collection of original and photocopied documents relates to slavery in North Carolina: Includes deeds of gift and bills of sale for slaves; permission for a slave to marry; court cases relating to murder trials and to reimbursement of owners for executed slaves; documents relating to the insurrection conspiracy in Bertie County (1802); letters and petitions concerning emancipation of individual slaves; and documents relating to free persons of color wanting to reside in North Carolina.
Asa T. Spaulding Papers, 1943-1974 (MfP 151)
Biography of the retired president of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company includes copies of speeches, articles, and news releases. Papers include program and planning materials for two seminars: "Women and Minority Directors of Major Corporations" and "How Free is our Free Enterprise System." Publications of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Corporation are included.