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Episodes tagged "plantation": 1 through 6 of 6

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  1. The Plantation Will Last
    date August, 1861map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Farm Equipment, Slavery, plantation, Civil War

    In August of 1861 the Civil War was beginning to show its true colors, bloody and drawn out battles of attrition revealed the war would be much longer and bloodier than anyone had expected. Failed offensives by both the North and South were publicized throughout the nation, and the newly established Confederate was burdened with building a country from scratch and governing a war.  At this same time...

  2. Abner Jordan Shares His Life as a Slave
    date March, 1930 to 1930map Durham, North Carolinatags Slavery, plantation, Slave Living Conditions, Runaway Slaves, Slave Life

    Abner Jordan was interviewed by a member of the Work Projects Administration for a Federal Writer’ Project that was documenting North Carolina slave narratives. Jordan has never left North Carolina since he was born there and agreed to the interview despite being the old age of 95. He discussed his birth with hesitance, claiming that he was “bawn about 1832 in Staggsville, Marse Cameron’s place”....

  3. Child Mortality on an Alabama Plantation
    date June 25, 1846 to December 31, 1849map GREENE, Alabamatags plantation, Slavery, Death, Children, alabama

    Disease was rampant among the slave population in the Antebellum South. Poor diet, less than adequate clothing, and exposure to the elements, caused the immune systems of the over-worked laborers to break down, making them susceptible to contracting a variety of illnesses. A demographic that was particularly at risk were children age nine and under. Fully 45 out of every 10,000 slave children aged...

  4. Fall Illness on the Greene County Plantation - Flu or Yellow Fever?
    date September 28, 1847 to October 26, 1847map GREENE, Alabamatags Illness, Yellow Fever, plantation, Slavery

         In the “Cameron Plantation Letters” there are numerous references to the health of the slaves living on the Greene County Alabama plantation.  There are one hundred or so letters in the University of North Carolina collection that are catalogued on the website ‘The Plantation Letters, Interpreting Antebellum Plantation Life’. I found thirty-five that directly referenced the health...

  5. Order On Plantations
    date 1857map FRANKLIN, Floridatags Slave, plantation

    Maintaining order on a plantation that was dependent on slavery was very important. To achieve this slaves required positive aspects in their life to look forward to. These privileges drove them to work. The creation of task systems and gang systems were frequent practices and established content lives among workers. Task systems were designed so that each slave had one engagement he or she was required...

  6. The Kingsley Plantation
    date March 7, 1814 to March 5, 1815map Florida, Floridatags plantation, Zephaniah Kingsley

    In the early years of the nineteenth century many people came to Spanish Florida. Some were forced to come to Florida to work on plantations and others like Zephaniah Kingsley sought to make their own fortunes by obtaining land and establishing those plantations. During this time alliances and politics were shifting and though some of the enslaved would later become free landowners, they had to watch...