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There was a clause in the Confederate draft laws that allowed an exemption from the draft for men who owned more than twenty slaves; therefore I would think that the majority of male plantation owners did not serve in the Confederate Army.
Gina, very few survived. They were plundered, crops destroyed and many buildings burnt to the ground. The destruction was wanton and devastating. When the Northern armies came through the area, crops were destroyed and passing troops burned...
By the terms "plantation owners" I will assume you mean those few large land owners who owned the steriotypical plantations like in the movies. In reality this was not the norm. The norm was the small farmer/share cropper. These p...
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Between 1850 and 1860 the cotton crop nearly doubled, 2.1 to 3.8 million bales. Thanks for ChaChaing!
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Indoor plumbing was a luxury. Thomas Jefferson had something like it, when he used slaves to pull away chamber pots via a system of pulleys. But in general, it remained a luxury for hotels and the largest mansions (not a typical plantation)...
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the plantation will be given to a relitive that is alive or they will sell it. and if the misstress is alive she will own it till she dies than the daughter than the son and so on and so forth.
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Slavery in the USA did not stop until a number of years after the civil war. so no doubt for many of them it was business as usual.
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An owner of a large plantation owned 50 or more slaves and over 1,000 acres of land. An owner of a small plantation owned from 20 to 40 slaves and 100 to 1,000 acres of land.
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Plantation owners used slaves for most of the labor on the farm and fields before the war. After the war, the *****'s were set free by order of the President of the U. S. This didn't happen all over the south at once. News traveled slower w...
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