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Natchez to New Orleans: Norman's chart of the lower Mississippi River by A. Persac (1858) showing cotton plantations of Mississippi along the Mississippi River, Natchez to state line 1860 US census, Mississippi, number of slaves per enslaver Former slave quarters at Jefferson Davis' plantation Brierfield in Mississippi, drawn by A.R. Waud, etching published 1866 in Harper's Weekly
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Mississippi that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Edward McGehee (November 8, 1786 – October 1, 1880) was an American judge and major planter in Wilkinson County, Mississippi.He owned nearly 1,000 slaves to work his thousands of acres of cotton land at his Bowling Green Plantation.
At the time of the Civil War, the great majority of blacks were slaves living on plantations with 20 or more fellow slaves, many in much larger concentrations. While some had been born in Mississippi, many had been transported to the Deep South in a forcible migration through the domestic slave trade from the Upper South. Some were shipped from ...
Plantations in Mississippi (2 C, 23 P) Pages in category "History of slavery in Mississippi" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Of course, slavery wasn’t limited to plantations. “I think there are loose ideas that Black enslavement was 'mostly' confined to agricultural plantations in certain parts of the deep South, or ...
Stephen Duncan (March 4, 1787 – January 29, 1867) was an American planter and banker in Mississippi.He was born and studied medicine in Pennsylvania, but moved to Natchez District, Mississippi Territory in 1808 and became the wealthiest cotton planter and the second-largest slave owner in the United States with over 2,200 slaves.
The Forestdale Plantation, also known as the McGowan-Fatherree Plantation, is a historic plantation in Pachuta, Mississippi, US. It was built from 1855 to 1857 with the forced labor of enslaved people for three brothers, Hamilton, Elbert and Robert McGowan. [2] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 22, 1980. [3]