<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:coverage>United States, Georgia, Glynn County, Saint Simons Island, 31.15051, -81.36954</dc:coverage><dc:creator>Goldsborough, J. R. (John Rodgers), 1808-1877</dc:creator><dc:date>1862-04-21</dc:date><dc:description>Describes formerly enslaved people on St. Simons Island, who form a "self sustaining colony" under the control of Goldsborough. </dc:description><dc:description></dc:description><dc:description>Goldsborough describes many scenes regarding formerly enslaved people on the island, or "contrabands", and many times refers to specific individuals, although these people are rarely named. </dc:description><dc:description></dc:description><dc:description>Names a person, Hope, Goldsborough's "head man" of a settlement of formerly enslaved people on the island. Hope may be a formerly enslaved person.</dc:description><dc:description></dc:description><dc:description>Names Columbus (14), "a bright intelligent mulatto ... son of one of my overseers," whom Goldsborough suggests bringing North to his wife.</dc:description><dc:description></dc:description><dc:description>Names a formerly enslaved man, Primus (a horse coachman).</dc:description><dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/</dc:rights><dc:subject>Enslaved persons--Georgia</dc:subject><dc:subject>Slavery--Georgia--History</dc:subject><dc:title>Letter</dc:title><dc:type>Text</dc:type></oai_dc:dc>