List Of Slave Plantations In Texas. Slavery in delaware “by the time the civil war began, fewer than 1,800 slaves lived in delaware, and 75 percent of them were in sussex county, mostly in the nanticoke river basin in the far southwest of the state.” lincoln made one last attempt at. Census was the last u.s.
Although the system was an effective means of replacing slave labor, it often resulted in deplorable treatment for the prisoners, including some at lake jackson. Texas applied for statehood just 16 years before the civil war and was admitted to the union in 1845 as a slave state. Like cotton plantations, sugarcane plantations.
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By the 1850s, sugar was a major industry in fort bend, matagorda, wharton, and brazoria counties, which became known as the sugar bowl of texas. Linking names of plantations in this county with the names of the large holders on this list should not be a difficult research task, but it is beyond the scope of this transcription. Renting a slave for the interest on a debt as recorded in an autograph document transferring temporary ownership of a negro woman named lucretia about 18 years old copper complexion or yellow from wyatt hanks for a period of 12 or 20 months, for the interest on $900, to john campbell and his wife of dewitt county, texas, and signed by john. Slave lists covered here are 1800, 1810, 1820, 1850 and 1860.
