Scope and Contents From the Collection: According to Callie B. McGinnis' article in volume 4 of Muscogiana (1993) and also on the website Rootsweb on Ancestry.com, the Hatcher & McGehee Negro Book was part of the Chattahoochee Valley Historical Collections in the Columbus State University Archives. It was donated to the Archives by Mrs. Lenora Woodall Nilan. The book is a record of the purchase and sale of slaves from 1858 to 1860 by Hatcher & McGehee, one of three slave trading companies that operated in Columbus,...