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Wimberley, Ronald C. et al. "A Federal Commission for the Black Belt South" Professional Agricultural Workers Journal (PAWJ) 2#1: 6–9 online; Wimberley, Ronald C.; Morris, Libby V. The Reference Book on Regional Well-Being: U.S. Regions, the Black Belt, Appalachia. (Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State University, 1996) online ...
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.
Black Belt in the American South; ... Slaves Waiting for Sale: Richmond, Virginia, 1853. Note the new clothes. ... In 1860, at the start of the Civil War, ...
Map showing the distribution of the slave population of the southern states of the United States. Compiled from the census of 1860. Note the population densities in the Black Belt region. Originally part of the Mississippi Territory, the Alabama Territory was formed in 1817.
April 12 – The American Civil War begins (secessions began in December 1860), and lasts until April 9, 1865. Tens of thousands of enslaved African Americans of all ages escaped to Union lines for freedom. Contraband camps were set up in some areas, where blacks started learning to read and write.
Black Belt in the American South; ... and sold at auction sale to Calvin Smith, a planter in Louisiana, for $1500. ... 2022), ch 5. before 1860. Foner, Philip. Blacks ...
Black power movement; Post–civil rights era; Aspects; Agriculture history; Black Belt in the American South; Business history; Military history; Treatment of the enslaved; Migrations; Great Migration; Second Great Migration; New Great Migration
Eyre Crowe, Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond, Virginia (1861), painted from a sketch made 1853 when he was touring the U.S. with British novelist William Makepeace Thackeray Ellyson's map of Richmond, 1856 "Auction at Richmond" (Picture of Slavery in the United States of America by Rev. George Bourne, published by Edwin Hunt in Middletown, Conn., 1834)