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Episodes tagged "Agriculture": 21 through 30 of 265

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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. Human Property
    date January 1, 1833map CAMDEN, Georgiatags African-Americans, Agriculture, Economy, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Slavery

    On January 1, 1833, when Charles Manigault moved slaves from another plantation he owned to Gowrie Plantation, several miles up stream from Savannah Georgia, he left neat columns of names to inventory his property, while at the same time, putting brackets around each slave family. Furthermore, next to each slave's name he wrote descriptions. Not physical descriptions but personality traits. Manigault...

  3. The Cross of Gold
    date November 5, 1891 to November, 1896map HINDS, Mississippitags Agriculture, Economy, Government, Politics

    On November 5, 1891, in its Alliance Department, The Jackson Weekly Clarion Ledger published the Farmers' Alliance main agricultural ideas. The central issue on the page, however, had nothing to do with crops, but had entirely to do with silver. Indeed, under a section labeled Alliance Principles and Demands, the first demand was unlimited silver coinage, or certificates based on silver. Since the...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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,...

  7. Norfolk Virginian reports on tobacco output
    date July 23, 1891 to 1891map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy

    The Norfolk Virginian reported the acres of farmland that grew tobacco and the pounds of tobacco harvested as a result in 1891. There were various counties and big producers included Amherst, Bedford, and Prince Edward. Many of these counties resided in the Central Virginia region. 24,034 planters planted on 110,579 acres and produced 48,522,655 pounds of tobacco according to the last census. The...

  8. Working Women
    date August 26, 1866map LOUISA, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy, Women

    Anne Watson was part of a wealthy Virginia plantation family that flourished in the 19th century in Louisa County. She lived a life of luxury and refinement until tragedy struck and she lost several children and her husband, all by 1853. After her husband's death, she was forced into a dominant role in the running of the household, in both the domestic and business spheres. This new role meant that...

  9. The Dutch Ferryman
    date 1835map RAPIDES, Louisianatags Agriculture, Church/Religious-Activity, Economy, Migration/Transportation, Native-Americans

    Presbyterian Reverend Timothy Flint had been settled with his family in Alexandria, Louisiana for 10 years when he set out at the age of 55 to explore the Red River and the people who lived along it. Commissioned by the Missionary Society of Connecticut in 1815 to preach Christianity to the masses of emigrants moving west, Flint was no stranger to such exploration. He ministered in the Ohio Valley,...

  10. Livestock and Appalachia
    date April 3, 1884 to 1884map WYTHE, Virginiatags Agriculture, Health/Death, Economy

    Healthy livestock were imperative to running a successful farm in Appalachia. Unfortunately, keeping these animals healthy after the Civil War became a constant struggle for many Appalachian farmers. Disease ravaged the livestock population after the war. In 1884, the Wytheville Dispatch ran an article about ?our friend? Bob Crockett. Crockett was famous in Wytheville for his work in improving the...

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