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  1. Rambin's Cotton Crop Failure
    date September 25, 1881map DE SOTO, Louisianatags African-Americans, Agriculture

    Sally Garland Young Rambin struggled to write to her sister because of a sore eye, which she had gotten from the family that her husband had brought to the plantation. He had brought them to help pick the cotton crop that a young man had cultivated on their land but had not picked. Rambin's sore eye and the negligent young man were the least of the Rambins' worries, however. Rambin wrote to her sister...

  2. A West Virginians Bookkeeping
    date 1872map JEFFERSON, West Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy, Migration/Transportation

    Migrants headed to the frontier in the nineteenth century were eager to work. Many, unable to immediately settle down and begin anew, worked on farms they encountered in order to make money. On the other side were the farmers who could charge these migrants room and board and pay them set wages to do the work around their farm. Franklin Osburn not only ran a farm but also a country store on his property....

  3. Relief from Crop Devastation
    date March 28, 1861map YAZOO, Mississippitags Agriculture, Health/Death, Economy, Government

    A considerable drought met the residents of central Mississippi during the summer of 1860. A great number of people from counties such as Leake and Attala were left with ruined crops and no other source of economic gain. In many cases both corn and cotton were devastated, leaving a considerable number of people without the means or credit to purchase bread. On March 28, 1861, John Pettus called this...

  4. Cholera Epidemic Along Red River
    date July 25, 1833map NATCHITOCHES, Louisianatags African-Americans, Agriculture, Health/Death, Economy, Slavery

    Massive numbers of people were dying in the summer of 1833, but luckily, Edward George Washington Butler assured his father-in-law in Virginia, he and his family of Iberville, Louisiana were so far unaffected. Cholera was sweeping through the state. Outbreaks in the East had already occurred on the St. Lawrence River, in New York City, and Philadelphia in 1832, reaching New Orleans a year later, where...

  5. Coffee's New Taste
    date 1861 to 1865map BARBOUR, Alabamatags Agriculture, Economy, War, Women

    Parthenia Hague loved coffee. She thought that this palatable drink, if not a real necessary of live, is almost indispensable to the enjoyment of a good meal. When the Union blockaded Southern ports during the Civil War and caused the price of coffee to skyrocket to seventy dollars a pound, Parthenia had to find a substitute for her favorite beverage. Her favorite solution was browned, mature okra...

  6. Long slave days
    date 1855 to 1870map RUSK, Texastags African-Americans, Agriculture, Health/Death, Race-Relations, War

    Due to warm and stable weather, Texas proved unique in that crops could be planted throughout the year. In fact, the work never ended because plowing would start in January, planting of corn and cotton in February and March, hoeing in June, shucking of corn in June and July, picking of cotton from August to December, and then preparation for the new growing season again in January. Many times when...

  7. Charleston Suffers a Cold Spell
    date February, 1895 to March, 1895map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags African-Americans, Agriculture, Health/Death

    In February of 1895, Charleston experienced the coldest winter ever on record up to that date. It reached a low of twelve degrees Fahrenheit. Entire crops of strawberries, cabbage, lettuce, and peas were destroyed both within the city and across the state. The cold weather decimated both the city's food supply and its ability to export food products. While the account of the cold spell focuses on...

  8. Agricultural Crisis in the South
    date September 16, 1819map KERSHAW, South Carolinatags Agriculture, Economy

    A local farmer published a letter in the Camden Gazette in the hopes of bringing the region's epidemic of cotton rot to the public forum for discussion. The farmer wrote that there were two theories about the source of the epidemic that was rotting cotton crops across both South Carolina and Georgia: that the disease arose from degradation of the cotton plants due to over cultivation, or that a scourge...

  9. The Organization of Agricultural Societies
    date June 27, 1818map KERSHAW, South Carolinatags Agriculture, Economy, Education

    A newspaper article was published on June 27 to announce the formation of a society for the improvement of agriculture, called the South Carolina Agricultural Society. The objectives of the society were cited as being improving the internal conditions of South Carolina, with special interest in Camden County. Improvements would be made by discovering new manures and facilitating the collection and...

  10. Sugar Cane on Small Farms in Louisiana
    date July 17, 1872map ASSUMPTION, Louisianatags African-Americans, Agriculture, Economy, Slavery

    With the end of slavery, the large sugar plantation of Louisiana suffered major setbacks in output. Slavery had powered the profitable sugar industry in the Delta region, but with its abolition, many planters were left with huge plantations and acres of fertile land, but no labor to cultivate them. Soon, many Southerners realized this trend and began to sell pieces of their land so that a network...

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