Southern Life and African American History – Plantation Records (1775-1915), Part 3
This list of Plantation Records detail the far reaching impact of plantations on both the American South and the U.S. at large. Plantations Records function both as business records and personal papers. The RIAS has access to the third part of this collection, which stems from the holdings of the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. These collections document rice, cotton, and sugar plantations in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. The Cameron Family Papers and the Pettigrew Family Papers make up a large part of this collection. The Cameron Family Papers detail women’s management of plantations during the absence of men, and the Pettigrew Family Papers recounts the history of an influential coastal North Carolina family of planters, ministers, intellectuals, military officers, and politicians. Part 3 also includes several collections of cotton factor’ records such as the records of Maunsell White from Louisiana, and the Gordon family from Savannah, Georgia. It also covers the lives of enslaved people , Southern politics, and the settlement of the Southern frontier in Arkansas and Mississippi.
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