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Leaning back in his rocker with his bare feet propped on the railing, Joshua smoked his first cigarette of the day. Fat, bushy-tailed squirrels running around the trees and swinging off the moss-laden limbs had held his attention for the past fifteen minutes; he welcomed distraction. Watching the squirrels had kept his thoughts at bay, which was good. He especially needed a break from thinking of the events of the last several days.

Scattered along many of Louisiana’s rivers and bayous are majestic, historical homes built during a time of Southern prosperity. In the South, these homes and surrounding property often called plantations, were the product of middle to upper class slave-owning planters. Central Louisiana is home to a plantation that is “the oldest standing structure” in this area. During a recent visit to Kent House Plantation, I learned of the history, operations, and current events that help to keep the past alive.

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There has been many historians and theorists who have tackled colonial slavery. One of them is Ira Berlin whose book Many Thousands Gone is his take on slavery diversity in American history and how slavery is at the epicenter of economic production, amongst other things. He separates the book into three generations: charter, plantation and revolutionary, across four geographic areas: Chesapeake, New England, the Lower country and the lower Mississippi valley. In this paper, I will discuss the differences between the charter and plantation generations, the changes in work and living conditions, resistance, free blacks and changes in manumission.

The acclaimed book begins with Georgia beginning as a dry and modest colony. As the years pass, these ideals and morals are changed to desiring more than a hardworking farmer. The people of Georgia desired to have slaves. Therefore, Georgia changed and started a path to become identical to South Carolina. However, as the amount of plantations sky-rocketed, so did the need for more slaves. It is a marvel to imagine that I live in the city of Savannah that was a beacon for the selling and exchanging of human beings.

Slavery has always been a part of human history. Therefore on cannot talk about when slavery began in North America. Soon after the American colonies were established in North America, slaves were brought in to meet the growing labor need on plantations. Although the importation of slaves continued to grow as new plantations were developed, it was the industrial revolution that would have the most profound impact on the slave industry. The purpose of this essay is to analyze the effect of slavery in the 13 colonies due to the industrial revolution.

Du Bois returns to an examination of rural African American life with a presentation of Dougherty County, Georgia as representative of life in the Southern Black Belt. He presents the history and current conditions of the county. Cotton is still the life-blood of the Black Belt

Laurel Valley Village Plantation located at 595 Hwy. 308, Thibodaux, LA 70301 in Lafourche, Parish is a museum of the history of farming sugar cane. I visited the museum on April 26, 2016 and viewed the past as if it still sits in the present. The land that Laurel Valley Plantation sits on originally belonged to a Mr. Etienne Boudreaux. He received the land as a grant in 1783.The main plantation house was burned down by Union soldiers in the Battle of Lafourche Crossing on June 20th through the 21st of June 1863. Joseph W. Tucker purchased the land and surrounding lands in 1832. Mr. Tucker was one of many plantation owners in the south that owned slaves and by 1850 had 162 slaves maintaining his fields at Laurel Valley. The plantation switched owners several times, but in 1915 Mr. J. W. Lepine the current owner invented a tractor that enabled him to plant faster than the use of mules and slaves.

The Northern states had the pleasure of discovering abundant resources of coal. In addition, Richmond faced difficulties because of their existence on the margins of a plantation economy. Even though this was the nation’s first mine, it had various disadvantages that would not let it compete on an industrious scale. In the following paragraph, I will discuss how the South had a secret hand in textile mills within the United States.

T.H. Breen's and Stephen Innes’s book "Myne Owne Ground" does and outstanding job of pointing out the difference in perspectives when it came to living in the south and being black was like. It goes in depth and shows how a black person was competent and was capable to acquire a wealth that was comparable to a wealthy white man, but it is never recognized by the general white population. The authors make an argument that in early colonial Virginia blacks that owned property were able to live semi-normal, if not prosperous, racism free lives. Breen and Innes argue that before the Virginia slave codes were passed, property owning blacks had a chance to be viewed as

In the early sixteen-hundreds there were nearly equal opportunities for blacks and whites in the New World, most specifically in Virginia. One African-American man in particular exemplifies this fact. Anthony Johnson escalated in society from being a slave1 to becoming a wealthy landowner with slaves of his own.2 The successes of this man both economically and socially provide a rather important window into the lives and opinions of the peoples in Virginia at the time, especially the black community and their treatment by their fellow white agriculturalists.

A few people have participated in the history of Texas than William Pitt Ballinger. John Anthony Moretta written biography carries Ballinger to life as one of the most influential men of his time; lawyer, soldier Politian and entrepreneur. In Ballinger 's intriguing lifetime and career he addressed some of the most significant concerns of his period, embracing secession, enslavement, establishments, and the law. “Ballinger’s professional and personal accomplishments were testimony to the American creed that believed that hard work was in itself was a virtue…”(12) The social, political, and cultural climate of Texas, the South, and the country are visible throughout the life, eyes, and mind of this extraordinary, man whose life spanned much of the nineteenth century. To be genuine, he has fashioned a superb study of an era in Texas history and the history of the South. This essay seeks to examine how Ballinger, as a slave owner, dealt with slaves. It also looks at the influence of southern life on him and finally, outlines the role that he played in the Civil War by exploring the reasons of the Civil War in overall as well as his inspiration.

With the economic system, the south had a very hard time producing their main source “cotton and tobacco”. “Cotton became commercially significant in the 1790’s after the invention of a new cotton gin by Eli Whitney. (PG 314)” Let

In American history, every event and person plays a part in the future. For example, rich plantation owners helped America advance their economy. However, that would not have been at all possible without the help of their slaves. The time and institution of slavery is a time of historical remembrance. It played a primary role during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. The treatment, labor conditions, and personal stories of these slaves’ treatment and labor conditions are all widely discussed around the world to this day.

and had developed skills useful to the plantation owner. They were often in working positions