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Monticello – The plantation home of Thomas Jefferson, located in Virginia [1] Montpelier (Orange, Virginia) – The estate of James Madison, fourth President of the United States [2] Mount Vernon – George Washington's plantation home in Virginia; Naval Air Station Pensacola – A major training base for the U.S. Navy in Florida
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.
In village-type slave quarters on plantations with overseers, his house was usually at the head of the slave village rather than near the main house, at least partially due to his social position. It was also part of an effort to keep the enslaved people compliant and prevent the beginnings of a slave rebellion, a very real fear in the minds of ...
According to the 1840 United States census, one out of every four families in Virginia owned slaves. There were over 100 plantation-owners who owned over 100 slaves. [2] The number of slaves in the 15 States was just shy of 4 million in a total population of 12.4 million and the percentage was 32% of the population.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Georgia 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.
Plantation slavery had regional variations dependent on which cash crop was grown, most commonly cotton, hemp, indigo, rice, sugar, or tobacco. [3] Sugar work was exceptionally dangerous—the sugar district of Louisiana was the only region of the United States that saw consistent population declines, despite constant imports of new slaves.
Some portray slaves as having plenty to eat, while others portray "the fare of the plantation [as] coarse and scanty". [2] For the most part, slaves' diet consisted of a form of fatty pork and corn or rice. [2] Cornbread was commonly eaten by slaves. [3] Produce from a vegetable patch or garden could also be added to the rations. [4]
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.