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Alex Haley's Queen: The Story of an American Family (1993) is a historical novel, later a movie, that brought knowledge of the "children of the plantation" to public attention. Edward Ball 's Slaves in the Family (1998), written by a White descendant of slave owners , describes this complex legacy.
Scholar Arlene R. Keizer, writing about a work by the African-American artist Kara Walker, argues that she uses cut-paper silhouette to cast "the entire family, white and black, slave masters, slave mistresses, enslaved 'concubines,' and children (following the condition of the mother), into shadow...a dysfunctional family portrait, referencing both the biological families engendered through ...
Rosalie Stier Calvert (February 16, 1778 – March 13, 1821) was a plantation owner and correspondent in nineteenth century Maryland.A collection of her letters, titled Mistress of Riversdale, The Plantation Letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert, was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 1991.
The only son to survive childhood of Daniel Parke Custis, a wealthy planter with nearly three hundred slaves and thousands of acres of land in five Virginia counties, and the former Martha Dandridge, he was most likely born at White House, his parents' plantation on the Pamunkey River in New Kent County, Virginia. To his family, he was known as ...
Charles Deslondes was born on the plantation of Jacques Deslondes about the year 1789. [2] Deslandes's plantation succession records have Charles described as being a "Creole mulatto slave" by the name of Charles, "about 16 years old", listed as a "field laborer." [3] He was likely baptized a Catholic. [4]
Meanwhile, Henry Lee operated the family's Machodoc plantation, 2,600 acres (11 km 2) acres originally developed by their grandfather, and by then mostly using enslaved labor rather than indentured servants. Machodoc had been inherited by their brother Richard, who soon died, and the brothers leased it from his England-based widow at a ...
In 1856 Bélizaire was sold to be enslaved on the Evergreen Plantation, a sugar plantation in Louisiana, and researchers have been unable to determine what happened to him after 1860. The painting is the only known image that exists of one of the 400 persons who were enslaved at the Evergreen Plantation. [5] [2]
Woodlawn Plantation in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1805 On February 22, 1799, Nelly Custis married George Washington 's nephew, the widower Lawrence Lewis of Fredericksburg, Virginia . Before that marriage, some had hoped Nelly would marry Thomas Adams, son of John and Abigail Adams .