"Negro clothing book"
Image description: "Negro clothing book", plantation accounting ledger book with writing on both pages in black and red colors.
Note: This is from a plantation in Tennessee, though we know many of these clothing record logs were kept by slaver owners in North Carolina also. This gives you an idea of how detailed slave owners kept records on their property. This was a business for slaver owners and most of them kept up with every penny spent on each enslaved Black person they owned.
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This is a "Negro clothing book" tabulated by Jane Washington, the mistress of Wessyngton Plantation in Cedar Hill, Tennessee. In this book, Washington listed the names of enslaved peoples next to their clothing allotment.
Wessyngton Plantation was established in 1796 by Joseph Washington and was later inherited by his son George A. Washington. Over the course of the nineteenth century, they became incredibly wealthy tobacco planters who not only owned Wessyngton Plantation, but properties and enslaved peoples in Kentucky. By 1860, the Washingtons were one of the wealthiest families in Tennessee. This book and other items from the Washington estate are now held by the Tennessee State Library and Archives.
Source Link to the Washington Papers at the TN State Library and Archives
https://cse.google.com/cse...