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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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One of the things going on with the secondary sources is an attempt to figure out how enslaved people who worked in their owners' homes were treated. Blassingame was seeking to understand the richness and depth of the cultural experiences that ens...
Here is Rachel's podcast
play majustic_2009-04-23T09_33_23-07_00
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The Good Slave
ECI-525--Robert Coven
Slavery is anathema, but it was not always so. It was quite possible for well-meaning and rational people to practice and defend the “peculiar institution.” Certainly this was the case in the Antebellum South...
Here is my draft, might I add "rough" draft ;)
When we learn about slavery and the slaves’ masters we often get a picture of an evil cold hearted man, who would whip and torment slaves, while they worked in weather conditions that made it imposs...
One of the more striking aspects of the Cameron plantation letters is the account they offer of the exportation of slave life from the areas of initial settlement on the Atlantic seaboard beyond the Appalachian mountains into the old Southwest and...
Here is the re-edited, rough draft of my essay. I will be adding the footnotes and finishing my 4th paragraph shortly but wanted to put something up before class. Let me know your thoughts if you wish.
In the “Cameron Family Letters,” http://plan...
There are numerous life situations featured in the letters of the Cameron Plantation. The focus of interest here is the life of the enslaved people as seen through the eyes of the Cameron family. Of course because of this we must interpret based o...
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
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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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