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6 unusual facts about Plantations in the American South


Caernarvon, Louisiana

Names of antebellum Plantations in the American South were often reflective of European roots and aspersions of grandeur; two upriver Mississippi River plantations, Nottoway near White Castle, Louisiana and Sans Souci near Osceola, Arkansas are two examples of this tradition.

Corotoman

At Corotoman, Carter maintained a building known as the "Brick House Store" where he kept imported goods that he sold and bartered to local planters.

Grancer Harrison

He came to Coffee County, Alabama sometime in the 1830s and established a large plantation near the junction of Cripple Creek and Pea River in an area just out outside of what is now Kinston, Alabama.

Jean Toomer

Her father, Louisiana Governor P. B. S. Pinchback, was a planter and the first African American to become governor of a U.S. state.

Plantations in the American South

Antebellum architecture is seen in many plantations, especially in the "plantation house," the large residences of planters and their families.

Randal William McGavock

Randal William McGavock (1826–1863) was an American lawyer, Democratic politician, Southern planter, and Confederate Lt. Colonel.


Albert Estopinal, Jr.

Estopinal was the oldest of ten children of the former Elisha Legier (1850–1925) and Albert Estopinal, Sr. (1845–1919), a planter and since 1870 the owner of Kenilworth Plantation.

Alex Haley's Queen

The series begins with the friendly relationship between James Jackson Jr. (Tim Daly), the son of the plantation owner, and one of the slaves, Easter (Jasmine Guy), at the Jackson estate, known as Forks of Cypress, near Florence in northern Alabama.

Reverse Underground Railroad

From 1811-1829, Martha "Patty" Cannon was the leader of a gang that kidnapped slaves and free blacks from the Delmarva Peninsula of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia and transported and sold them to plantation owners located further south.


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