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Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- CHAPTER I-The Overseer and His Work -- CHAPTER II-The Duties of the Overseer -- CHAPTER III-Terms of the Overseer's Contract -- CHAPTER IV-The Plantation Experience of James K. Polk -- CHAPTER V-Ephraim Beanland's Struggle for Plantation Supremacy -- CHAPTER VI-Beanland and the Plantation Routine -- CHAPTER VII-The New Plantation in Mississippi -- CHAPTER VIII-The Overseership of George W. Bratton, 1837-1839 -- CHAPTER IX-The Overseership of John I. Garner -- CHAPTER X-The Overseership of Isaac H. Dismukes -- CHAPTER XI-The Overseership of John A. Mairs -- CHAPTER XII-The Planter and his Commission Merchant -- CHAPTER XIII-The Lesson of the Letters.

Until 1865, millions of slaves worked on plantations and small farms throughout the southern United States. The most common image is of slaves forced into difficult labor on cotton or tobacco fields. However, some plantation slaves were proficient craftsmen, trained in metalworking, carpentry, or other specialized skills. Others were house servants, who cooked and cleaned for their white masters. This book will give readers a better understanding of the daily lives of plantation slaves, along with the oppression and challenges that they faced

Slavery and Emancipation is a comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in the American South combining recent historical research with period documents. The most comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in America. Combines recent historical research with period documents to bring both immediacy and perspective to the origins, principles, realities, and aftermath of African-American slavery. Includes the colonial foundations of slavery, the master-slave relationship, the cultural world of the plan

This is a 1969 report generated by the South Carolina State Development Board in cooperation with the Coastal Plains Regional Commission to provide potential industrial developers with information about the Gippy Plantation site in Berkeley County and to encourage new industrial development. The report includes maps, photographs, and descriptions of the Gippy Plantation site, as well as geologic information. The document also includes brief statistics of Moncks Corner, SC, covering population density, current industries, state of the labor force, local government, finances and taxes, transportation, utilities, education, recreation, and public services.

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