A letter from J.B. Moore to business partners in Charleston bargaining for the return of persons he formerly enslaved on his plantation known as “The Ruins” in Sumter. Moore also discussed relations with a man he formerly enslaved named Washington and indicated that he had “no money to risk in loaning to any Negro in the present uncertain state of the laws in regard to that class, and especially to Washington as both himself and his wife are old and I supported them before the Yankees freed them.”
J.B. Moore Legal papers, the South Carolina Historical Society
