Episodes Located: HOUSTON, Georgia in the 1840's

  1. Plantation Owner Seeks Compensation From Incompetent Overseer
    date June 22, 1848 to August 9, 1848map HOUSTON, Georgiatags Agriculture, Law

    On June 22, 1848, plantation owner John Powers filed a petition against his overseer, William Ingram, in the Inferior Court of Houston, Georgia. Powers sought reimbursement for financial losses resulting from the overseer's poor and irresponsible work, asserting that half of his cotton and corn crop was lost due to bad management, want of industry and misconduct of the defendant. His plantation...