<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, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434</dc:coverage><dc:creator>Alberti, Ernestine Strong, 1811-</dc:creator><dc:date>1840/1845</dc:date><dc:description>The collection consists of letters from Ernestine Strong Alberti and her husband, Edwin R. Alberti, to their family members in Binghamton, New York. Correspondence describes their lives in Georgia, including the acquisition of enslaved people to labor on their newly acquired plantation and mill. The collection also includes letters from Cyrus Strong, Jr., Ernestine’s brother, and her husband’s business partner, to John Clapp.</dc:description><dc:format>image/jp2</dc:format><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/</dc:rights><dc:subject>Slavery--Economic aspects--Southern States</dc:subject><dc:subject>Plantation owners--Georgia</dc:subject><dc:subject>Enslaved persons--Georgia</dc:subject><dc:subject>Slavery--Georgia--History</dc:subject><dc:subject>Southern States--Description and travel</dc:subject><dc:title>Ernestine Strong Alberti family letters, 1840-1845</dc:title><dc:type>Text</dc:type></oai_dc:dc>