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GLYNN, Georgia in the 1880s: 1 through 3 of 3

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  1. White Power and Black Wage Labor
    date 1870map GLYNN, Georgiatags African-Americans, Agriculture, Race-Relations

    Francis Leigh Butler ran her plantation on her own. As a white woman, she earned respect from her neighbors for her abilities to oversee the completion of day-to-day work done by her hired black laborers. Butler considered the hired hands to be loyal workers-almost a part of her family. To her dismay, she overheard that one of the men, Peter Track, who had been a favorite had tried to leave the plantation...

  2. Managing Black Labor on a Southern Plantation
    date March, 1871map GLYNN, Georgiatags African-Americans, Agriculture, Race-Relations

    Francis Butler Leigh ran her plantation on St. Simon's Island off the coast of Georgia on her own. However, she was scheduled to leave for Europe to meet with her husband, and the plantation would have to continue its day-to-day activities without her supervision. Leigh wrote in her diary that she worried about leaving the place entirely in charge of the negro captains, even though her slaves were...

  3. Irish Laborers on Southern Plantations
    date 1871map GLYNN, Georgiatags Agriculture

    Black laborers were not the only group employed by whites to take on grueling plantation work. The Leigh plantation on St. Simon's Island off the Georgia coast had for several years employed a gang of Irish labourers to do the banking and ditching on the Island. Francis Butler Leigh, the white matriarch of the plantation, observed that she was surprised at how the Irishmen worked well and faithfully,...