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Episodes tagged "Plantation Life": 1 through 2 of 2

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  1. Casual Affection: An Explanation of Duality between Affection and Dominant Ownership.
    date December 28, 1847map ORANGE, North Carolinatags Plantation Life, Cameron family, Slavery

    How can one person treat another as both indispensable and an object to be purchased? Frances Cameron writes to Duncan Cameron, “A man servant who formerly belonged to my mother is about to be sold, and has applied me to buy him [...] I am particularly desirous of purchasing him [...] But a good male servant in my establishment, is indispensable ...” (series: 1.3.3, box: 43, folder: 1023, date:...

  2. Kingsley’s Plantation
    date 1803 to 1821map Montgomery, Georgiatags Slavery, Slave master, slave conditions, Race-Relations, florida slave history, Plantation Life

    In 1803, Zephaniah Kingsley began bringing slaves from Africa to his plantation in Fort George Island.[1]  Fort George Island is located slightly north of modern day Jacksonville.  “The United States did not allow anyone to bring in slaves after 1808.  But Florida still belonged to Spain, and so smugglers brought in slaves to the southern United States through northern Florida.”[2]  Slaves...