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McLeod Plantation is a former slave plantation located on James Island, South Carolina, near the intersection of Folly and Maybank roads at Wappoo Creek, which flows into the Ashley River. [2] The plantation is considered an important Gullah heritage site, preserved in recognition of its cultural and historical significance to African-American ...
She and Greenfield started highlighting printouts and taking photos of pages from non-circulated books that detailed bits of her family history. Johnson learned slaves were used not just as labor ...
Matilda McCrear (c. 1857 – January 13, 1940), born Àbáké, was the last known survivor in the United States of the transatlantic slave trade and the ship Clotilda.She was a Yoruba who was captured and brought to Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama at the age of two with her mother and older sister.
Delia Garlic (c. 1837 - ?) was a formerly enslaved woman originally from Virginia. Garlic is best known for her first-hand account of enslavement , the Civil War , and post- emancipation freedom. In 1937 when she was one hundred years old, the Federal Writers' Project of The Works Project Administration recorded her oral history, in Montgomery ...
Researchers estimate there are less than 30 incorporated historic Black towns left in the United States, a fraction of more […] The post Descendants of enslaved people fight to save historic ...
A majority of plantation owners and doctors balanced a plantation need to coerce as much labor as possible from a slave without causing death, infertility, or a reduction in productivity; the effort by planters and doctors to provide sufficient living resources that enabled their slaves to remain productive and bear many children; the impact of ...
On Saturday, June 22, 2024, I stood outside of the cemetery gates with Knightdale community members and fellow Black descendants of Midway Plantation for the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Phoebe, an enslaved woman who sued for her freedom in Tennessee, along with her sons Davy and Tom, claiming to be the descendants of an enslaved Indian woman whose sister and other relatives had proven that they were wrongly enslaved. [179] Philocrates, enslaved by 2nd-century BCE Roman reformer Gaius Gracchus. He remained at his master's side ...