By the time of Washington's death in 1799, roughly ninety percent of the plantation's population consisted of over three hundred African American slaves (forty of whom Washington rented from a ...

He speculates, for instance, about the opportunity and challenge for slaves seeking to escape an island like Ossabaw rather than a mainland plantation. “I’ll need to research that,” he says ...

But the masters and slaves never approached equality. 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 ...

The North End plantation—the site of Elliott's dig—prospered and expanded from about 30 slaves before the American Revolution to around 70 prior to the Civil War. No written records of slave ...

"If I had known there was a 'Miller Plantation,' I maybe could have ... Enslaved "Since the revelation… I know that when the slaves brought food into the main house, they came up through ...

Some sources allege that "over 20,000 freed slaves were killed in one year in ... These newly freed African Americans fled the plantation countryside for the City of Natchez after it was occupied ...

After the Civil War, those torn from loved ones and family members by slaveowners placed newspaper ads in the hope of reunion ...

The DuParc Plantation exported indigo, rice, pecans and sugarcane, and at the time of his death in 1808, the residence ...

The site of a 19th century plantation that's now a nature preserve ... a unique program to educate the public about former slaves becoming FREE!" One of the major themes to emerge from community ...

Visitors are usually most interested in discovering how the lives of plantation owners differed from that of their slaves.

and visitors can tour the McLeod family home as well as the slaves' living quarters. They will also learn about the relationships between those who lived on the plantation and the property's ...