Miscellaneous Inventories, 1813-1817, is a bound volume kept by or for a member of the Ball family. The volume includes inventories of furniture, kitchen ware, clothing, and other household decorations such as candlesticks, bookcases, shades, looking glasses and crockery. The volume also includes a list of enslaved men, women and children divided by families.
A letter to John Jacob Ischudy discussing arrangements for the rectory, a situation concerning the senders "negroes," and punishing Old Friday by returning him to Ischudy's care.
The Roslin Plantation journal, kept by Archibald Simpson Johnston, documented enslaved people and slave labor on an antebellum plantation for two years (1813-1815). The journal documents correspondence, equipment, planting and harvesting, livestock, slaves and supplies related to the plantation. There are detailed descriptions of tasks and number of enslaved people working each task, particularly tasks regarding growing cotton and rice and maintainining those fields.
1850-1859, 1890-1899, 1880-1889, 1870-1879, 1860-1869, 1840-1849, and 1900-1910
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The South Mulberry Plantation Journal is a bound journal kept by Sandford William Barker containing farming records of South Mulberry Plantation and agricultural experiments carried out in Berkely County, South Carolina. Details within the journal include lists of crop acreage, experiments on wood from various trees by Dr. Julius Porcher, experiments with rice by Sandford Barker and lists of enslaved men, women and children containing their names, occupations, birth dates and death dates. The names of the slaves are listed as: Adam, Alsey, Amelia, Amy, Anna, April, August, Becks, Billy, Cain, Catto, Chance, Charlotte, Cloe, Delia, Dinah, Dorilla, Dover, Edward, Emma, Grace, Hannah, Harriet, Hector, Hercules, Isaac, Jackson, James, Juno, Kittan, Lucas, Lucy, Luddy, Maria, Marianne, Mary, Melinda, Nancy, Nippy, November, Palsey, Phoebe, Rachel, Ralph, Robin, Sabina, Sam, Samuel, Samy, Sarah, Saulsbery, Susan, Susannah, Susette, Tom and Venus.
The Richmond Plantation Journal, 1859-1860 was kept by Anthony Weston, Benjamin Huger's overseer. Entries concern activities on the rice plantation primarily related to rice cultivation (plowing, manuring, cleaning ditches, threshing and winnowing.) Also mentioned are corn, peas, potatoes, livestocks, the weather and lists of goods and prices. The journal also includes entries relating to slave allowances as well as violence towards slaves including flogging and imprisonment. The names of the slaves are listed as: Affee, Anthony, Benego, Big Tony, Billy/Runaway Billy, Bina, Carpenter Sam, Cloe, Cornelia, Cyrus, Delia, Dina, Ellick, Ellie, Grace, Handy, Hector, Jack, Jak, John, Jose, Juda, Juiet, Margaret, Martha, Morris, Moses, Peggy, Peter, Pino, Racheal, Rock, Sally, Sarah, Simon, Thomas, Toby and William.
A color photograph of two laborers walking through a cabbage field while a bag of Muriate of Potash is in the foreground. It is indicated that an extra 100 pounds was used.
