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5 days ago · American Slavery, Civil Records. The following is information found in the records of the National Archives and Records Administration. It identifies the record group and series, with brief descriptions and locations. It does not provide actual documents.
Jun 18, 2024 · Drawn from major repositories throughout the South, Plantations Records, Parts 1 and 2, include two major collections of primary sources: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations From The Revolution Through The Civil War:
- Dale J. Correa
- 2017
3 days ago · Stephen A. Douglas (1813–1861), U.S. Senator from Illinois and 1860 U.S. Democratic presidential candidate. He inherited a Mississippi plantation and 100 slaves from his father-in-law. [101] Historians continue to debate whether he opposed slavery.
Jun 27, 2024 · Records from Mississippi plantations include a number of diaries documenting daily life. Other topics covered in Part 3 are the lives of the enslaved people, Southern politics, and the settlement of the Southern frontier in Arkansas and Mississippi.
Jun 28, 2024 · Records of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi plantations from the 18th to the early 20th centuries.
Jun 16, 2024 · Whitney Plantation is a former plantation-turned museum that teaches about the South's turbulent past without sugar-coating any of the facts. In the past, a generation of Africans and their descendants were enslaved here to grow indigo, rice, and sugar.
Jun 22, 2024 · Louisiana is tucked between Texas to the west, Mississippi to the east, and Arkansas to the north. New Orleans is considered part of the South and the Gulf Coast of the United States. All the plantations that I list in this post are anywhere from 40 minutes to 1.5 hours away from the French Quarter of New Orleans.
