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  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 lands...

  2. Chinese Workers Arrive in Iberville Parish, Louisiana
    date October 26, 1870map IBERVILLE, Louisianatags African-Americans, Agriculture, Economy, Race-Relations

    The Chinese workers were wide-eyed with anticipation when they arrived at Edward Gay's St. Louis plantation in Iberville Parish, Louisiana on October 26, 1870. The welcome that the workers recruited from California received when they stepped foot on the rich white Gay family's land was far from hospitable. Moon-Ho Jung's Coolies and Cane frankly describes the scene: Gay's son Andrew, a planter himself,...

  3. Henry Banks' Land Sale
    date May 8, 1816map HENRICO, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy, Law

    In May of 1816, Henry Banks put up his estate for sale. Banks had incurred debt to a man named Neil McCaul, and he needed the profit from this sale to settle up with him. The land for sale was property on both sides of the canal, just a mile or so south of Richmond, Virginia. Banks put an ad in a local Richmond paper, the Virginia Argus, to inform his neighbors of the sale. He did not, however, include...

  4. Our Indian Difficulties
    date May 19, 1828 to May 30, 1828map CHATHAM, Georgiatags African-Americans, Agriculture, Government, Law, Migration/Transportation, Native-Americans, Race-Relations, Slavery, Women

    People often want what they cannot have. At least, this was true in Georgia in 1828. On May 19, 1828 the Argus, a newspaper in Savannah, printed an extract of a letter from a member of Congress, to the Editor. In this letter the politician explained that the mood in Washington was changing in favor of removal of the Native Americans currently living where they had been for a long time on some of the...

  5. Railroads; the new form of transportation in the South
    date July 23, 1891 to September 1, 1896map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy, Migration/Transportation

    Newspapers, like the Portsmouth Star were filled with railroad advertisements displaying the price and rates for which a passenger could travel from Portsmouth to Virginia Beach, Petersburg, Philadelphia, and even New York with no more than a day of travel for even the farther distances. A company called the Bay Line and Pennsylvania railroad offered to take people in Norfolk to the Niagara Falls for...

  6. Cotton Growers Unite Over Deflation
    date September 27, 1898 to September 28, 1898map RICHLAND, South Carolinatags Agriculture, Economy, Politics

    In The State, a special address was made from a committee of the Cotton Growers' union of South Carolina to the cotton growers of the state. Immediately, the committee addresses exceedingly low prices of cotton of the time period and the further deflation to come. With prices...lower than they have ever been previously at the time, foreign speculators were holding off purchases to wait for cheaper...

  7. North Carolina Farmers' Alliance Comes to Sampson County
    date January, 1888map SAMPSON, North Carolinatags Agriculture, Politics

    Although the Alliance appeared in Robeson County, North Carolina in the spring of 1887, it was not until January 1888 that the Farmers' Alliance reached Sampson. By October 1887, the Alliance had established a state organization, with Syndenham B. Alexander as its president, Leonidas L. Polk as secretary, and Elias Carr as chairman of the executive committee. The Alliance attracted both small and large...

  8. Labor Disputes and Modernization in Newberry County, South Carolina
    date February 22, 1886 to February 23, 1886map NEWBERRY, South Carolinatags Agriculture, Economy

    On the 22 of February, 1886, the Newberry County Club of Farmers met to debate the issue of labor. President R.T.C. Hunter oversaw the meeting as Mr. J.C. S. Brown discussed the necessary control of labor; he laid stress on the fact that no matter the situation, whether it was the tenant, the cropper, or the hiring system, the farmer was conned out of the most profit. As the President called for open...

  9. Grand Opening of the Greenville Tobacco Warehouse
    date October 1, 1891map PITT, North Carolinatags Agriculture, Economy

    October 1, 1891 was a day to remember in the history of Greenville in Pitt County, North Carolina. The grand opening of the Greenville Tobacco Warehouse was the beginning of a new era in the prosperity of the town and community. The warehouse would allow the opportunity for farmers in Greenville to sell their tobacco close to home and by opening day, arrangements had already been made to bring in buyers...

  10. Company Buys Cotton Plantations in Twiggs, Georgia
    date January 9, 1890map TWIGGS, Georgiatags Agriculture, Economy

    On January 9, 1890, Colonel Thomas P. Stovall closed a deal on one of the largest land transactions in the state of Georgia in recent history. His company, the Union Real Estate Trust, purchased 24,000 acres of plantation land used for cotton cultivation located in Twiggs County, Georgia. The land was not being used to its highest potential, which was a significant appeal to the Trust company. Their...

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