Largest Slave Plantation In South Carolina. Note that some of the slave listings are under the counties from which the families were originally living, including now extinct counties. Plantation names were not recorded on the census, but in south carolina there were 482 farms of 1,000 acres or more, the largest size category enumerated in the census.
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The slave trade had been outlawed in 1808 nationally, over 50 years previously. Gist, the 68th governor of south carolina, built his georgian style brick home in 1830. The south carolina historical and genealogical magazine vol.
Slavery was just as important to the economy in other states as well.
He was born a slave and was given the name april, after the month in which he was born. In addition to his rice plantations, ward served as the 44th lieutenant governor of south carolina from 1850 to 1852, as a democrat, under governor john hugh means. At their financial peak, the hairstons owned 40 plantations and enslaved 10,000 people. Note that some of the slave listings are under the counties from which the families were originally living, including now extinct counties.
