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1. J. J. Miles in a/c with Benjamin Perry Account Book

J. J. Miles in a/c with Benjamin Perry Account Book
Date:
1850-1859, 1860-1869, and 1840-1849
Description:
Volume Two of the Benjamin Perry's Wards Collection contains the account of Jeremiah Jackson Miles. Accounts show expenses for items such as shoes, clothing, cloth, travel, boarding fees, tuition for the Citadel Academy, income from interest and the wages of slaves. The enslaved men and women are listed as: Amey, March, Mark, Miley and Peter.

2. John Allen Miles Account Book

John Allen Miles Account Book
Date:
1850-1859, 1860-1869, and 1840-1849
Description:
Volume One of the Benjamin Perry's Wards Collection contains the account of John Allen Miles kept by his guardian, Benjamin Perry. Accounts show expenses for items such as shoes, clothing, cloth, travel, boarding fees, tuition for the Citadel Academy, income from interest and the wages of slaves. The enslaved men and women are listed as: Bill, Clarissa, Hector, Judy, Primus and Will.

3. Gibbs Plantation Register

Gibbs Plantation Register
Date:
1850-1859, 1870-1879, 1860-1869, 1840-1849, 1830-1839, and 1820-1829
Description:
This is the plantation register by Mathurin Guerin Gibbs (1788-1849) for Rice Hope Plantation (January 1, 1824 to December 1844) and Jericho Plantation (December 1844 to 1875). Gibbs, a lawyer before becoming a planter, used the first several pages of the manuscript dating January 1824 to May 1829 for summarizing legal cases. The plantation register primarily documents daily labor activities on the plantation including cultivation and harvesting of staple crops such as corn, cotton (Sea Island Cotton and Santee black seed cotton), rice and potatoes, livestock, and building fences. Gibbes also writes about the use and management of slave labor, the movement of enslaved people between the plantation and Charleston, and selling and purchasing of enslaved people. Slave names are included in portions of the register. Gibbs notes throughout the register the struggles he encounters as a planter including being unable to pay the mortgage of Rice Hope Plantation and the property going into foreclosure. Most of the entries at the end of the register are regarding slave births, slave deaths and distribution of blankets. Gibbs died in 1849 and the management of the plantation was carried out by his son.