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Draft posting of episodes from the Plantation Letters
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Mentions of slavery in plantation letters
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Working with documents - Summarizing historical information about life for slaves (Activity I)
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Most people would disagree with the notion of a benevolent overseer in the deep American South in the first half of the nineteenth century, I myself being one of them. Slavery in todays world has been deemed an injustice, no matter the circumstanc...
Draft: 1847 Yellow Fever Epidemic
In 1847 the Mississippi River basin had to deal with an outbreak of Yellow Fever. Transmitted by mosquitoes, the symptoms commonly associated with Yellow Fever are fevers, chills, headaches and nausea. In the lat...
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 nume...
Rough Draft of Plantation Letters Episode--Middle Passage
The second stage of the transatlantic slave trade was also called the Middle Passage. The Middle Passage was a horrifying experience for slaves headed to the Americas. Slaves were quartere...
The good health of a slave was essential to a plantation owner. Without healthy slaves, there would be no successful plantation, and in turn no successful owner. This idea was only further confirmed after continued research into the Cameron family...
Here is a rough draft of my idea. I look forward to any comments you might have. I plan to replace the references herein listed with connections (somehow) to the links we can make of references. I will then put the final references as links to the...
Fall Illness on the Greene County Plantaion - Flu or Yellow Fever?
In the “Cameron Plantation Letters” there are numerous references to the health of the slaves living on the Greene County Alabama plantation. In the hundred or so letters in the U...
This is a letter written Dec 7, 1844
http://plantationletters.com/pcameron/Paul_Cameron_1844_12_7_TR.swf
The part of the letter I find most interesting is the part about Paul planing to go to work on the cabins
ROUGH DRAFT: The Shawshank Plantation, or Nowhere to Run but Back to Cameron
In the movie The Shawshank Redemption, an old convict named Brooks is finally paroled, but he is extremely upset at the thought of having to leave Shawshank Penetentiary...
Post here drafts of essays on historical episodes emerging from inquiries using the Plantation Letters. These essays will be submitted to the History Engine at http://historyengine.richmond.edu
After reading through the Plantations letters and the excerpts provided by classmates I think that the overall theme is that monetary importance and gaining income is all that truly mattered. A few of the interpretations that I have read from clas...
Sickness and Health as Resistance
In any relationship of power, there is resistance. One of the major trends in history in the later half of the 20th century was locating and valuing resistance to power. Guilds, factories, armies, colonies, and e...
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When reading through the Cameron letters for slave references many of the information discussed between authors is related to slave health and the state of the crops on the plantation. However, there are a few lines that highlight new plantations ...
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Paul Cameron at University of North Carolina.
For two year in the 1820s, Paul Cameron attended the University of North Carolina. Paul's father Duncan was an early supporter of the university, so any questions about where his son would attend school would presumably have been academic (so to speak!), but not so much for Paul's actual studies at the university. This letter sent to Duncan Cameron on December 9, 1824 tells a story… Continue
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