| Summary: | Phanor Prudhomme was a cotton planter of Natchitoches Parish, La. His son, J. Alphonse Prudhomme (b. 1838), attended the University of North Carolina from 1858 to 1860 and succeeded Phanor on the family plantation at Ile Breville (later called Bermuda) in 1867. The collection includes business papers and volumes, 1804-1876, of Phanor and, later, J. Alphonse Prudhomme, relating to cotton growing at the familiy's plantation at Ile Breville, Natchitoches Parish, La. Papers include bills, receipts, indentures, and a small amount of correspondence with factors in New Orleans. A few papers are dated after the turn of the century, with some as recent as 1940. Among early materials are papers relating to other cotton planters of Natchitoches Parish. Besides loose papers, the collection contains 25 volumes, most of which relate directly to plantation life and include slave records, accounts with freedmen, and a variety of other agricultural and personal records, 1836-1878. There is a small amount of non-business correspondence, most of which relates to family or community affairs.
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