Handwritten notes of references to slavery, slaves, slave auctions, runaway slaves, Jonathan Walker, crimes committed by or legal and court proceedings involving blacks, with names of paper, date, page number, and brief description. Primarily covers the Pensacola Gazette (1821-1858), the Pensacola Florida Democrat (1846-1851), West Florida Times (1857), Pensacola Weekly Observer (1861) and the Santa Rosa News-boy (1863). Compiled by Brian R. Rucker, 2008. Users are cautioned that Dr. Rucker indexed those newspapers that he could locate and certainly there are other issues and dates of these newspapers in library collections.
