Largest Slave Plantation In Texas. Slave owners were heavily concentrated in the south as their economic activity, namely the agricultural production of cash crops like tobacco and cotton, was sustained and made profitable through the use of slave labor. The plantation's annual crop sold for as much as $70,000.
The destrehan plantation was the site where one of the three trials following the 1811 slave revolt took place. The 1822 bernardo plantation, the first and largest cotton plantation in the republic of texas, was the home of jared e. They dominated colleton county (now the charleston area) and became one of the wealthiest slaveholding families in south carolina.
When the jackson plantation was thriving, it was part of a regional economy that was powered by the work of slaves.
When the jackson plantation was thriving, it was part of a regional economy that was powered by the work of slaves. More than 300 men and women toiled in their sugar cane and cotton fields, which now sprawled over. It was designated a recorded texas historic landmark in 1967. 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.
