The standard image of Southern slavery is that of a large plantation with hundreds of slaves. In fact, such situations were rare. Fully 3/4 of Southern whites did not even own slaves; of those who ...

These likely represent surviving remnants of the antebellum slave quarter that was adapted by soldiers during the Civil War. The quarter for enslaved plantation workers was only 1,100 feet away from ...

Your selfhood was denied." - Catherine Clinton, historian The majority of slaves lived on cotton plantations, where they often worked under the supervision of black drivers and white overseers ...

An Antebellum Slave Quarter Site Adapted for Military Use during the Civil War at Kingsmill Plantation, James City County, Virginia Archaeological investigations of a site at Kingsmill Resort—best ...

¹ Today, only a small fraction of these remain, and most are significantly altered from their antebellum state. These plantations represented estates ranging in magnitude from moderately sized farms ...

At an antebellum plantation, during Black History Month, over 100 people came to a lecture about slavery on Saturday.

Yet academics and the public continue to associate plantations largely with the antebellum South and thus with the history of ...

First, it reconstructs the individual lives and collective experiences of some 2,000 slaves on two large plantations—Mesopotamia sugar estate in western Jamaica ... Caribbean slave life in the British ...

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge ... Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. Woodward, C.

Stagville stands as a testament to one of America’s largest antebellum plantations, where the Bennehan and Cameron families ...

Instead of using the secret routes along the Underground Railroad to find freedom in the North, thousands of enslaved Black ...

The area's antebellum plantations offer a look ... travelers will explore the plantation in depth, view slave quarters, see the great house and much more. Tourgoers commend their drivers and ...