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Historian David Williams, in A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom, suggests that the minimum requirement for planter status was twenty people enslaved, especially since a Southern planter could exempt Confederate duty for one white male per twenty people owned. [47]
Abolitionist, civil rights activist, and Union colonel George H. Hanks sent photographs with descriptions of emancipated child slaves and Chinn in a letter to George William Curtis, then editor of Harper's Weekly, [2] the most widely read journal during the Civil War, which appeared in the January 1864 article "Emancipated Slaves White and Colored": [3]
Subject of photos of his scarred back, widely circulated during the American Civil War Peter ( fl. 1863 ) (also known as Gordon , or " Whipped Peter ", or " Poor Peter ") was an escaped American slave who was the subject of photographs documenting the extensive scarring of his back from whippings received in slavery.
He had owned slaves but joined the bi-racial Readjuster Party after the Civil War. [198] John Lawrence Manning (1816–1889), 65th Governor of South Carolina, in 1860 he kept more than 600 people as slaves. [199] Francis Marion (1732–1795), Revolutionary War general, most of the people he enslaved escaped and fought with the British. [200]
White slave propaganda was a kind of publicity, especially photograph and woodcuts, and also novels, articles, and popular lectures, about slaves who were biracial or white in appearance. [1] Their examples were used during and prior to the American Civil War to further the abolitionist cause and to raise money for the education of former slaves.
Durham County is putting $237,000 toward a downtown memorial honoring the enslaved people of Stagville Plantation. “Stagville was not just a slave plantation. It was considered a slave complex ...
Slave quarters in the United States, sometimes called slave cabins, were a form of residential vernacular architecture constructed during the era of slavery in the United States. These outbuildings were the homes of the enslaved people attached to an American plantation, farm, or city property. Some former slave quarters were continuously ...
In many parts of Little Dixie, some antebellum plantation homes still stand today. Many people participate in heritage tourism and historic projects to preserve these structures and other aspects of this era. Other aspects of the region's complex history, including after the Civil War, are also being studied and preserved.