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Here's my rough attempt at an episode on the death of Diley's child. The numbers in parentheses are for citations that I will include in the final draft. I have a secondary source that I am currently looking at so that I may include some more numeri…
11-18-1845
Paul Cameron to Duncan Cameron
“I arrived here on Tuesday morning, meeting with a pretty cordial reception from overseer and negroes, many of whom seem very much pleased to see me. But all were not up to greet me. Little Joe is yet in d…
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Disease on the Plantation
An antebellum plantation was dependant upon slave labor to be a successful business. Cash crops like cotton and tobacco required constant and tedious work throughout the year. The Cameron family of North Carolina would have their slaves tilling and planting cotton in the early spring, chopping and cleaning the middles in summer, picking in the late summer and early fall, and turning over the soil throughout the winter. The slaves were the tools that the family used to build one of North Carolina… Continue
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