Biggest Slave Plantation In South Carolina. A brief history of plantations in charleston south carolina. Visitors can also take a tour of the plantation house and slave quarters by guides in period clothing, coach tours, garden tours and enjoy the butterfly pavilion.
These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the federal writers' project (fwp) of the works progress administration, later renamed work projects administration (wpa). Koger says there were ten black slave owners in charleston city, sc in 1830. Slaves on an american plantation operating a cotton gin.
Ward was the largest slaveholder in the united states during his lifetime.
Initially, that site was nowhere on my radar because it did not have an extant slave dwelling. In 1850 he held 1,092 slaves; Specifically it looks at where and how africans were taken into bondage, the middle passage, which brought slaves from africa to america, and the auctioning off of individuals and families, once the slaves. According to the 1860 census, he owned 63 black slaves, making him the largest of the 171 black slaveholders in south carolina.