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Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. Plantations, centered on a plantation house, grow crops including cotton, cannabis, coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar cane, opium, sisal, oil seeds, oil palms, fruits, rubber trees and forest trees.
There are examples in every Southern state. Centers of plantation life such as Natchez run plantation tours. Traditionally the museum houses presented an idyllic, dignified "lost cause" vision of the antebellum South. Recently, and to different degrees, some have begun to acknowledge the "horrors of slavery" which made that life possible. [56]
A broad and common measure of the health of a population is its life expectancy. According to "Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Slavery," by Robert Fogel, the life expectancy in 1850 of a White person in the United States was forty; for a slave, it was thirty-six. [1]
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Pierce Mease Butler and Frances Kemble Butler. Frances Anne Kemble (1809-1893) was an English stage actress who met and married Pierce Mease Butler, a Philadelphian who was the absentee owner of large rice and cotton plantations on St. Simons Island and Butler Island, Georgia where hundreds of people were enslaved.
A slave plantation was an agricultural farm that used enslaved people for labour. The practice was abolished in most places during the 19th century. The practice was abolished in most places during the 19th century.
An example of pioneering comparative work was A Jamaica Slave Plantation (1914). [10] [non-primary source needed] His methods inspired the "Phillips school" of slavery studies, between 1900 and 1950. Phillips argued that large-scale plantation slavery was inefficient and not progressive.
The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South is a book written by American historian John W. Blassingame.Published in 1972, it is one of the first historical studies of slavery in the United States to be presented from the perspective of the enslaved.