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A slave plantation was an agricultural farm that used enslaved people for labour. The practice was abolished in most places during the 19th century.

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Slave plantation

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A slave plantation was an agricultural farm that used enslaved people for labour. The practice was abolished in most places during the 19th century. Planters...

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Plantation economy

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crops, grown on large farms worked by laborers or slaves. The properties are called plantations. Plantation economies rely on the export of cash crops as...

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McLeod Plantation

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McLeod Plantation is a former slave plantation located on James Island, South Carolina, near the intersection of Folly and Maybank roads at Wappoo Creek...

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Plantation complexes in the Southern United States

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main house for the plantation owner, the slave cabins, barns, and other structures of the complex. The materials for a plantation's buildings, for the...

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List of slave owners

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Robert Ruffin Barrow (1798–1875), American plantation owner who owned more than 450 slaves and a dozen plantations. William Beckford (1709–1770), politician...

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Kingsley Plantation

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Service. Kingsley's house is the oldest plantation house still standing in Florida, and the solidly-built village of slave cabins is one of the best preserved...

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Antebellum South

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small-to-medium-sized farms with few slaves, but the large plantation owner's wealth, often reflected in the number of slaves they owned, afforded them considerable...

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Sugar plantations in the Caribbean

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the ratio of slaves to free men, but it increased the average size of slave plantations. Early sugar plantations made extensive use of slaves because sugar...

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Slave quarters in the United States

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of the enslaved people attached to an American plantation, farm, or city property. Some former slave quarters were continuously occupied and used as...

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House slave

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Maryland slave-owner compared the lives of his slaves to those of "house negroes" and "plantation negroes", refuting an accusation that his slaves were poorly...

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Atlantic slave trade

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The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas...

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Children of the plantation

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the owner's relatives, or the plantation overseer. These children were often considered to be the property of the slave owner and were often subjected...

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Slavery in the United States

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new cotton plantations in the Deep South, the Upper South sold more than a million slaves who were taken to the Deep South. The total slave population...

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Slave health on plantations in the United States

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The health of slaves on American plantations was a matter of concern to both slaves and their owners. Slavery had associated with it the health problems...

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Planter class

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of slaves and indentured servants and typically existed in tropical climates, where the soil was fertile enough to handle the intensity of plantation agriculture...

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Slave bell

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A Slave Bell is a bell that was rung to regulate the day on slave plantations and in slave societies. They were featured in slave plantations throughout...

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Monsanto family

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the Atlantic slave trade and owned African slaves at their plantations at Natchez, Mississippi (this was later known as Glenfield Plantation) and Trianon...

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Louisiana State Penitentiary

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after the former slave plantation that occupied this territory. The plantation was named after the country of Angola, from which many slaves originated before...

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Shadow family

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Northern citizens were totally incompetent to form any correct idea of a slave plantation. One of them remarked: 'We are called wives, and as such are recognised...

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Twelve Years a Slave

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the slave markets in Washington, D.C., and New Orleans, and describes at length cotton and sugar cultivation and slave treatment on major plantations in...

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Boone Hall

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its brick slave cabins, the site was named one of the African American Historic Places in South Carolina. The house at Boone Hall Plantation is modern...

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Laura Plantation

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Duparc Plantation, it is significant for its early 19th-century Créole-style raised big house and several surviving outbuildings, including two slave cabins...

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Slavery in Africa

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ancient world. When the trans-Saharan slave trade, Red Sea slave trade, Indian Ocean slave trade and Atlantic slave trade (which started in the 16th century)...

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Slavery

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William Wells Brown, who escaped to freedom, reported that on one plantation, slave men were required to pick 80 pounds (36 kg) of cotton per day, while...

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History of slavery

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reinvestment of profits back into the slave trade, the total profits from the slave trade and of West Indian plantations amounted to less than 5% of the British...

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Faunsdale Plantation

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Faunsdale Plantation is a historic slave plantation near the town of Faunsdale, Alabama, United States. This plantation is in the Black Belt, a section...

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