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Access to primary source records documenting the far-reaching impact of plantations on both the American South and the nation. Records include ledger books, payroll books, cotton ginning books, work rules, account books, and receipts. Personal papers include family correspondence, diaries, and wills. Personal papers include family correspondence, diaries, and wills.
Additional Information:
Includes access to Parts 1 through 4. Also includes documents related to the correspondence from overseers; documents on slave sales, runaway slaves, discipline, diet, health, and the work loads of adults and children; plantation management, and westward migration to Arkansas and Louisiana prior to the Civil War. The commodities produced by plantation owners--rice, cotton, sugar, tobacco, hemp, and others--accounted for more than half of the nation's exports. Another of the major collections included is the Papers of the Hairston and Wilson families, related families of tobacco planters and merchants from Southside Virginia and Piedmont North Carolina.
Coverage: 1775-1915
Vendor: ProQuest
Producer: ProQuest
Interlibrary Loan Type: Not Permitted
Simultaneous User Limit: Unlimited simultaneous users