Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Black Belt in the American South refers to the social history, especially concerning slavery and black workers, of the geological region known as the Black Belt. The geology emphasizes the highly fertile black soil. Historically, the black belt economy was based on cotton plantations – along with some tobacco plantation areas along the ...
In his study of Black Belt counties in Alabama, Jonathan Weiner defines planters by ownership of real property, rather than of slaves. A planter, for Weiner, owned at least $10,000 worth of real estate in 1850 and $32,000 worth in 1860, equivalent to about the top eight percent of landowners. [48]
Alabama was one of the first seven states to withdraw from the Union prior to the American Civil War. The slave trade continued unabated in Alabama until at least 1863, with busy markets in Mobile and Montgomery largely undisputed by the war. [15]: 99–100. Slavery had been theoretically abolished by President Abraham Lincoln 's Emancipation ...
Forks of the Road and Natchez-Under-the-Hill pictured in "Illustration F: Suburban Estates — c. 1830 to 1860" from The Black Experience in Natchez: 1720-1880, Special History Study by Ronald L. F. Davis (1993) Survey of Forks of the Road, August 1, 1856, by Thos. Kenny, Natchez City Surveyor (Mississippi Department of Archives and History Series 2051) Natchez, Mississippi c. 1839
Cotton Belt. The Cotton Belt is a region of the Southern United States where cotton was the predominant cash crop from the late 19th century into the 20th century. [1] Before the invention of the cotton gin in 1793, cotton production was limited to coastal plain areas of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, [1] and, on a smaller scale ...
Listing for the Joseph Bond sale - "Sales of Land and Negroes in South Western Georgia," Albany Patriot via Macon Weekly Telegraph, January 17, 1860 This is a list of largest slave sales in the United States, as measured by number of people listed for sale at one time, usually all derived from the same plantation or network of plantations due to death or debt of owner.
African Americans. The role of African Americans in the agricultural history of the United States includes roles as the main work force when they were enslaved on cotton and tobacco plantations in the Antebellum South. After the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863-1865 most stayed in farming as very poor sharecroppers, who rarely owned land.
William Ellison Jr. (April 1790 – December 5, 1861), born April Ellison, was an American cotton gin maker and blacksmith in South Carolina, and former African-American slave who achieved considerable success as a slaveowner before the American Civil War. He eventually became a major planter and one of the wealthiest property owners in the ...