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Scope and Contents "James Carroll Daybook": a financial records book of planter, merchant, and slave owner James Carroll. This folio-sized volume of nearly 300 pages is a record of the commercial accounts maintained by Carroll. Among other transactions, this book records Carroll's purchase of enslaved people, the costs of the provisions for the enslaved people whom he owned, and accounts of the overseers he employed. Records Carroll's management of the sale of 105 Africans transported from Sierra Leone on the...