A brief film on the plantations history is shown before visitors walk a short trail to the antebellum home. The plantation, which spanned hundreds of acres, had its own cotton gin, mill, and blacksmith shop. Enslaved laborers in the Lowcountry enjoyed a far greater degree of control over their time than was the case across the rest of the state, where they worked in gangs under direct white supervision. Under this structure, imported slaves saved many of their traditions and language. 3 miles east of Savannah, GA After some experimentation with various contractual arrangements for farm labour following emancipation, the system of sharecropping, or paying the owner for use of the land with some portion of the crop, became a generally accepted institution in Georgia and throughout the South. The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print. When the Georgia Trustees first envisioned their colonial experiment in the early 1730s, they banned slavery in order to avoid the slave-based plantation economy that had developed in other colonies in the American South. While little remains of other plantations in this area, Hofwyl-Broadfield stands much as it did nearly 200 years ago, offering a glimpse into Georgia's 19th-century rice culture. amounted to 231". Using plantation names to locate ancestors 3,950,546 unnamed slaves, or an average of about ten slaves per holder. Over the antebellum era some two-thirds of the states total population lived in these counties, which encompassed roughly the middle third of the state. Some one-fifth of the states enslaved population was owned by slaveholders who enslaved fewer than ten people. Nast's cartoon aimed to arouse sympathy for freedpeople following emancipation. Georgia? The Great Depression of the 1930s brought even greater suffering to the state and forced hundreds of thousands of sharecroppers out of farming. The 48,000 Africans imported into Georgia during this era accounted for much of the initial surge in the enslaved population. Abstract: The Wilkes County, Georgia collection is made up of probate inventories, estate records, indentures, receipts, accounts, and other documents relating to the inhabitants of Wilkes County, Georgia. Beyond the pine barrens the country becomes uneven, diversified with hills and mountains, of a strong rich soil. They viewed the Christian slave mission as evidence of their own good intentions. Because the cotton gin made cleaning short-staple cotton easier, more planters invested in the crop. Hanna Ireland, in 1901. Enslaved Georgians experienced hideous cruelties, but white slaveholders never succeeded in extinguishing the human capacity to covet freedom. by no means in-active, the buzz and clang of machinery and workmen's Constructed in 1856. Most of this growth has occurred in and around Atlanta, which by the end of the 20th century had gained international stature, largely through its hosting of the 1996 Olympic Games. Here the company was divided by The island's first steam-powered sugar factory. In Georgia in 1860 there were 482 farms of 1,000 acres or more, the largest size category enumerated in the census, and another 1,359 farms of 500-999 acres. Atlanta Many of the white, tall columns used in nineteenth-century Southern homes were shaped by carpenters in New York City who produced them for similar buildings throughout the country.. Abraham Kuykendall - 5 5. In 1785, just before the genesis of the cotton plantation system, a Georgia merchant had claimed that slavery was to the Trade of the Country, as the Soul [is] to the Body. Seventy-five years later Georgia politician Alexander Stephens noted that slavery had become a moral as well as an economic foundation for white plantation culture. of, 60 slaves, District 6 & 28 & 1164, page 359 ends on 355B, TAYLOR, Richard D. B., Fern & Bollingbrook & Erinn Plantations, 142 slaves, District 6, page 360, TAYLOR, Robert G. T. Estate of, 85 slaves, District [none shown], page 361, TAYLOR, Robt. Atlantas business community pursued a more open, progressive approach to the African American community than did many other Southern cities. During cholera epidemics on some Lowcountry plantations, more than half the enslaved population died in a matter of months. separate list of the surnames of the holders with information on numbers of African Americans on the 1870 census who were View Transcript. it is beyond the scope of this transcription. Quiz, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. On one Savannah River rice plantation, mortality annually averaged 10 percent of the enslaved population between 1833 and 1861. The 1860 U.S. Census was the last U.S. census showing slaves and slaveholders. comparing census data for 1870 and 1960, the transcriber did not take into consideration any relevant changes in county Although the organisers said they'd not break up families, it soon proved a hollow promise. After retreating some distance, a small field containing a This cultural autonomy, however, was never complete or secure. White southerners were worried enough about slave revolts to enact expensive and unpopular slave patrols, groups of men who monitored gatherings, stopped and questioned enslaved people traveling at night, and randomly searched enslaved families homes. Accordingly, the enslaved population of Georgia increased dramatically during the early decades of the nineteenth century. Genealogy Trails The system encouraged both the landowner and the sharecropper to strive for large harvests and thus often led to the land being mined of its fertility. Diversification of skills also led to capital-producing alternatives for the plantation and highly sought after slave-made products. was never fully ascertained. Since the colonial era, children born of enslaved mothers were deemed chattel, doomed to follow the condition of the mother irrespective of the fathers status. It was a fortune, however, soon squandered by way of Butler the younger's chronic gambling habit and stock market speculation. In Georgia in 1860 there were 482 farms of boundaries. Kate died in May of 1936, and which in recent years has reached significant proportions throughout If the surname is not on this list, the microfilm can be viewed As of 1800, maps showed 68 plantations outside the villages of Cruz and Coral Bay. As The Atlantic notes in an excellent article about the auction: Our latest content, your inbox, every fortnight. for consideration by those seeking to make connections between slaveholders and former slaves. Planters elaborated such notions, sometimes endowing black men and women with a vicious savagery and sometimes with a docile imbecility. Creator: Wilkes County, Georgia. A sequel to Mrs. Kemble's Journal by Doesticks, Q. K. Philander; 1863. The planter elite, who made up just 15 percent of the states slaveholder population, were far outnumbered by the 20,077 slaveholders who enslaved fewer than six people. belonged to the merchant class, along with doctors and lawyers were in the lowest class in Georgia during the antebellum era. Cozy cabins, beautiful views, lakes, waterfalls and friendly people. population increased by 80,000, to 545,000, a 17% increase. Estimates of the number of former slaves The actual number of slaveholders may be slightly Jimmy Carter succeeded Maddox, governed as a racial moderate, and pushed the state toward a progressive image that was more in line with that of the city of Atlanta. The economic prosperity brought to Georgia through staple crops like rice and cotton meant an increasingly heavy dependence on slave labor. Souvenir of the Hermitage by Henry McAlpin, From the Georgia Historical Society Rare Pamphlet Collection. In the 1920s the state continued to depend on cotton production, but crop destruction by the boll weevil soon caused an agricultural depression. Explore Henry County and find not only tiny, decorated squirrel dining spots throughout the community, but also an array of outdoor adventures waiting to be explored just 20 miles south of Atlanta. Built 1740, also known as the John Dickinson House. After World War II, Georgians were forced to address the states racial conflicts when African Americans began to challenge segregation. New Georgia Encyclopedia, last modified Sep 30, 2020. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/slavery-in-antebellum-georgia/, Young, J. R. (2003). . Unlike their enslavers, enslaved African Americans drew from Christianity the message of Black equality and empowerment. View of The Hermitage plantation in Tennessee, USA. Thomas Love - 7 4. census for 1860 and not know whether that person was also listed as a slaveholder on the slave census, because published Leslie Harris and Daina Berry (Athens, University of Georgia Press, 2016). In addition to the threat of disease, slaveholders frequently shattered family and community ties by selling members away. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like The antebellum era was when Georgia, of white Southerners owned large plantations with more than fifty enslaved workers. Black Georgians began a massive voter-registration campaign and succeeded in elevating their political influence to a level higher than that of African Americans in other Deep South states. Democrats held the governors office continuously until the election in 2003 of Sonny Perdue, the first Republican governor since 1868. Bulk dates: 1778-1830. Slave owners in 1850 and 1860 also include people from the low country of South Carolina who had summer estates in Flat Rock. White supremacists used biological, religious, and paternal excuses to justify inhumane slave treatment. At her death, her will dictated that the Joseph P. Reidy, From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992). Atlanta newspaper editor and journalist Henry Grady became a leading voice for turning toward a more industrial, commercial-based economy in Georgia. Thomas Nast's famous wood engraving originally appeared in Harper's Weekly on January 24, 1863. They typically experienced some degree of community and they tended to be healthier than enslaved people in the Lowcountry, but they were also surrounded by far greater numbers of whites. Mart A. Stewart, What Nature Suffers to Groe: Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680-1920 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002). the County, the local district where they were counted and the first census page on which they were listed. In the 1800s, the main reason for large plantations was to produce cash crops, such as tobacco, rice, and cotton. destroyed by fire. Since then, African Americans have been elected to many offices in Atlanta and in southwestern Georgia. The new house was constructed in the following 18 months and was Settle in and enjoy a town where everyone is your neighbor. researchers should view the source film personally to verify or modify the information in this transcription for their own The estate is located in Baldwin County, Georgia, approximately 4 miles northwest of Milledgeville. WednesdayFriday: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.First and third Saturdays: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Privacy PolicyFinancial Statements, Recognizing an Imperfect Past: A History and Race Initiative, Vincent J. Dooley Distinguished Fellows Program. Other statutes made the circulation of abolitionist material a capital offense and outlawed literacy and unsupervised assembly among enslaved people. After a few years selling off various properties, and unable to raise enough, they decided to sell the "movable property" the slaves from his Georgia plantation. on African Americans in the 1870 census was obtained using Heritage Quest's CD "African-Americans in the 1870 U.S. States that saw significant increases in colored population during that time, and were therefore more likely This entrenched pattern was not broken until the scourge of the boll weevil in the late 1910s and early 20s ended the long reign of King Cotton.. In Georgia, as in South Carolina, a caste of elite planters quickly established itself after Parliament removed the export duty on rice and royal policy lifted limitations on the number of land grants to individuals. A note written by the enumerator on page 368, regarding James Shackleford, who held 231 slaves, says, "Mr. S. came here To check a master surname list for other States and Counties, Beginning in late July and continuing through December, enslaved workers would each pick between 250 and 300 pounds of cotton per day. breastwork until two rounds were fired. This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Georgia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. was listed as having 6,329 whites, about three times as many as in 1860, while the 1960 total of 6,822 "Negroes"was about of almost two thirds between 1860 and 1870, so obviously that is where many freed slaves went. SOURCES. Her first husband, with Published information giving names of slaveholders and numbers of slaves held in Early County, Georgia, in 5556 U.S. Highway 17 N Copyright Pet Notice: Requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource should be submitted to the, StoryCorps Atlanta: Taft Mizell [story of great-grandmother during slavery], WABE: One on One with Steve Goss: Preserving the Gullah Geechee Culture, Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, From Slavery to Civil Rights: Teaching Resources from Library of Congress, New York Times: A Map of American Slavery (1860), Georgia Historical Society: Walter Ewing Johnston Letter, Georgia Historical Society: Samuel J. Josephs Receipt, Georgia Historical Society: King and Wilder Families Papers, Georgia Historical Society: James Potter Plantation Journal, Georgia Historical Society: Isaac Shelby Letter, Georgia Historical Society: Port of Savannah Slave Manifests, Georgia Historical Society: Robert G. Wallace Bill of Sale, Georgia Historical Society: Thomas B. Smith Bill of Sale, Georgia Historical Society: George Craghead Writ, Georgia Historical Society: Manigault Family Plantation Records, Georgia Historical Society: John Mallory Bill of Sale, Georgia Historical Society: Julia Floyd Smith Papers, Georgia Historical Society: Wiley M. Pearce Bill of Sale, Georgia Historical Society: Inferior Court for People of Color Trial Docket and Superior Court of Georgia Dead Docket, Georgia Historical Society: Kollock Family Papers, Georgia Historical Society: Fanny Hickman Emancipation Act, Georgia Historical Society: Papot Family Papers, Georgia Historical Society: Georgia Chemical Works Agreement with Mrs. H. C. Griffin, Georgia Historical Society: William Wright Ledger. term "slaveholder" rather than "slave owner", so that questions of justice and legality of claims of ownership need not be the ancestor is found to have been a slaveholder, a viewing of the slave census will provide an informed sense of the extent In 1790, just before the explosion in cotton production, some 29,264 enslaved people resided in the state. Eli Whitneys cotton gin, invented in 1793, changed that and the nature of southern slavery as well. PLANTATION NAMES. For 1865 and 1866, the section on abandoned and confiscated lands includes the names of the owners of the plantations or homes that were abandoned, confiscated, or leased. In 1868 the Republican Party came to power in Georgia, with the election of northern-born businessman Rufus Bullock as governor. slaveholder. The rice plantations were literally killing fields. Georgia had led the world in cotton production during the first boom in the 1820s, with 150,000 bales in 1826; later slumps led to some agricultural diversification. . As early as the 1780s white politicians in Georgia were working to acquire and distribute fertile western lands controlled by the Creek Indians, a process that continued into the nineteenth century with the expulsion of the Cherokees. Harmony Hall Plantation, located on the west bank of the North River, was started in 1787 by a land grant of 470 acres to Thomas Cryer, who in 1787 added 200 acres. Between 1860 and 1870, the Georgia colored Unless otherwise stated, our essays are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. The publication of slave narratives and Uncle Toms Cabin in 1852 further agitated abolitionist forces (and slave owners anxieties) by putting a human face on those held by slavery. The plantation could easily have been 4,000 acres. Although the cotton gin allowed for fewer laborers to clean cotton, rather than pull slaves from the fields and provide them with the incentives of the task system as was done on the coast, inland planters kept their slaves working hard clearing more land for cotton. In the 1890s Democrats disenfranchised African American voters and created a system of segregation to separate Blacks and whites in all public places throughout Georgia. of 194 slaveholders, and those slaveholders have not been included here. 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