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The Planter's Exchange, Inc. is a historic site in Havana, Florida. It is located at 204 2nd Street, Northwest, and was originally a tobacco warehouse . On September 17, 1999, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places .
The forced-labor farms of Leon County were numerous and vast.Leon County, Florida, was a hub of cotton production. From the 1820s through 1850s Leon County's fertile red clay soils and long growing season attracted cotton planters from Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, among other states as well as countries abroad.
Location of Gadsden County in Florida. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Gadsden County, Florida.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Gadsden County, Florida, United States.
Planters Nut & Chocolate Company advertisement in The Saturday Evening Post, 1921. Planters was founded by Italian immigrant Amedeo Obici in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He started his career as a bellhop and fruit stand vendor in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Obici later moved to Wilkes-Barre, opened his own fruit stand, and invested in a peanut roaster.
The level of their craftsmanship can be seen in the building itself, which still stands after over 175 years. While Call owned a number of slaves at this time and later became a cotton planter, there is little evidence to suggest The Grove itself ever served as a major agricultural plantation.
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Kingsley used the plantation as his slave trading headquarters, training slaves for specific tasks to increase their value at sale. [17] [53] He developed them as skilled artisans and educated them about agriculture and planting. Those who had been trained by Kingsley fetched a much higher price at sale, on average 50 percent higher than market ...
Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley, born Anta Madjiguène Ndiaye (18 June 1793 [1] – April or May 1870), also known as Anna Kingsley, Anta Majigeen Njaay or Anna Madgigine Jai, [2] was a West African from present-day Senegal, who was enslaved and sold in Cuba, probably via the slave pens on Gorée Island.