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1845 - Letter from a wealthy Missouri landowner to the headmaster of his daughters' boarding school expresses trepidation about having his unescorted daughters transported home for Christmas by an enslaved worker

by John [Strother] Harrison to J. L. [Joshua Lazelle] Tracy

"I will set the 24th . . . to meet you and the Children at 10 Oclock A/M. on this side of the Missouri River either with a Sleigh or carriage as the roads may best suit. I think most likely that I will send a black Boy, & on that account as well as others…