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While reading through the transcriptions from the Plantation Letters, I could not help but notice some obvious trends that most people were writing about: illness and the crop. In most cases, what people found in their assigned readings dealt with how many slaves were “in the house” because of some illness or sickness. However, I did not choose this topic to focus in on. I felt there had to be something more relevant as to why most of these summaries included this much detail about the slaves an… Continue