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Slave breeding was the practice in slave states of the United States of slave owners systematically forcing slaves to have children to increase their wealth. [1] It included coerced sexual relations between enslaved men and women or girls, forced pregnancies of enslaved women and girls due to forced inter inbreeding with fellow slaves in hopes ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of South Carolina 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.
Winnowing barn (foreground) and rice pounding mill (background) at Mansfield Plantation near Georgetown, South Carolina. Rice plantations were common in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Until the 19th century, rice was threshed from the stalks and the husk was pounded from the grain by hand, a very labor-intensive endeavor.
Example of an 18th-century rum factory, and ruins of a sugar plantation. 76002217 Estate Carolina Sugar Plantation: July 19, 1976 Coral Bay: Saint John 78000272 Mary Point Estate: May 22, 1978 Mary Point: Saint John 81000094 Hermitage Plantation Historic District: Coral Bay Saint John 81000093 Rustenberg Plantation South Historic District ...
A tourist looks into what was once enslaved people's quarters at Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Of course, slavery wasn’t limited to plantations.
Orange Grove Plantation is a historic plantation house and national historic district located on Saint Helena Island near Frogmore, Beaufort County, South Carolina.The district encompasses one contributing building and two contributing sites, and reflects the early-20th century influx of Northerners onto St. Helena Island.
Laurel Bay Plantation, also known as Woodward Plantation and Tabby Ruin Site, is a historic archaeological site located near Beaufort, Beaufort County, South Carolina.The site contains artifacts associated with domestic outbuilding activities related to either or both Laurel Bay Plantation (c. 1772 –1779) and Woodward Plantation (c. 1800 –1861).
Coffin Point Plantation, is a historic plantation house located in the Frogmore area of Beaufort County, South Carolina, USA. A Sea Island plantation. Ebenezer Coffin, born in Boston in 1763, received 1120 acres and 63 chattel slaves from his father-in-law and had the house built on the property.