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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.
This is a list of slave cabins and other notable slave quarters. A number of slave quarters in the United States are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Many more are included as contributing buildings within listings having more substantial plantation houses or other structures as the main contributing resources ...
McLeod Plantation focuses primarily on slavery, with Knowles writing, "McLeod focuses on bondage, talking bluntly about 'slave labor camps' and shunning the big white house for the fields." [ 55 ] "'I was depressed by the time I left and questioned why anyone would want to live in South Carolina", read one review [of a tour].
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.
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
Of course, slavery wasn’t limited to plantations. ... “I cried because I was like, oh my God, there's so much suffering that we still deal with today that I'm having to portray here, and I'm ...
Undated photos of two of the residents of Stagville, born into slavery: left, Doc Edwards, born 1850; and Amy Shaw, right, born 1850. Above photo is of some of the four still standing slave cabins ...
Faunsdale Plantation is a historic slave plantation near the town of Faunsdale, Alabama, United States. This plantation is in the Black Belt, a section of the state developed for cotton plantations. Until the U.S. Civil War, planters held as many as 186 enslaved African Americans as laborers to raise cotton as a commodity crop.