List Of Slave Plantations In Texas
The destrehan plantation was the site where one of the three trials following the 1811 slave revolt took place.
List of slave plantations in texas. It was led by charles deslondes, and was one of the largest slave revolts in u.s. Vol 3 contains contains mostly translated summaries documenting the black experience in texas. Land deeds, map, and record book with daily entries for work done on the plantation, slave activities, steamboat landings, weather notes by overseers for airlie plantation, east carroll parish, louisiana.
Vanderfail (joseph) slave bill of sale. List of slaves involved in 1848 rebellion. The texas runaway slave project (trsp) began in december 2012 at stephen f.
The nearby slave quarters were built of bricks made on the. On june 19, 1865 word of the emancipation proclamation finally reached enslaved african americans in texas, two years after it was signed in 1863 and slaves in other states had been freed by law. Robert mills and his younger brother, david, epitomized the enormous wealth that slavery and plantation agriculture had brought to the southeastern corner of texas in the few decades before the civil war.
African american descendants of persons who were enslaved in brazoria county, texas in 1860, if they have an idea of the surname of the slaveholder, can check this list for the surname. See more ideas about plantation homes, texas history, texas. Festivals honoring the emancipation of enslaved african.
The table includes the 14 reported slave states with slaves age 100 or more: Texas utah vermont virginia washington west virginia wisconsin wyoming: Compared to other deep south states, texas has comparatively few plantations standing as historical beacons of the civil war.
(1 item) texas slave laws. A plantation society in the texas borderlands. Alphabetical lists of large slaveholder surnames with county and state.