Bound papers written by Anne Simons Deas in 1900 describing the harvesting and planting of rice by freed men and woman. The pages also discuss the atmosphere of the rice fields, describing how the workers sing hymns and converse with one another.
A torn letter from Isaac Ball to his brother John Ball in "Charles Town" discussing John Ball's physique, the death of Mr. Quash's wife, a shipment of rice and their fathering purchasing a horse.
The Direleton Plantation Memorandum Book was kept by James Ritchie Sparkman beginning in the 1850s; changes in handwriting indicate additional authors and additional uses into the 1900s. The book contains slave records. Records includes slave births, slave deaths, purchases of slaves, sales of slaves, family seperation, measurements for clothing, distribution of blankets, and labor tasks. The book also contains lists of first and last names of agricultural workers after the American Civil War and figures, likely wages paid. There are account records kept for purposes of the Internal Revenue Services, Confederate taxes and bonds, personal and agricultural work purchases, and financial transactions with B.M. Grier, Eliza S. Heriot, Dr. R.S. Heriot, A.G. Heriot (with signed receipts), M.E. Heriot (with signed receipts), and G.A. Thorne. There are transactions with other plantations recorded including Cornhill Plantation, Northampton Plantation, and Birdfield Plantation. There is information on livestock, wines removed from the plantation, and rice sales.
A stereoscopic image of an African American man using a rice trunk to tend rice. The bottom text of the picture states that the field is being flooded at high tide.
A stereoscopic image of African American women and children posed on a large raft with rice plants. In the backgroud is a large body of water. One person holds a bail of rice.
Three black and white prints of a photograph taken at T. Farm in 1919. One of the prints is cropped while the other two are full-size. Caption on cropped print reads, 'Luxuriant growth of cotton & corn on old Rice Field. At E.W. Durant's T. Farm-1919.' The other two prints both have the caption, 'T. Farm 1919.'
A color photograph of J.F. Maybank waving his hat in a rice field. A caption on the back of the photograph reads, 'We start out [?] 12th [?] on this field 1951.'
A stereoscopic image of an African American man posed along side a a stone mill to hull rice. Text at the bottom of the image states: "Large Stones for Hulling Rice; the Hulling Stone for Removing Chaff."
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.
Work on paper in watercolor. View of distant fields, sheep, and shepherds in foreground. Hills and pond to right and center left. Rice fields in background.
