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Seville was one of the first sites in the region of Saint’s Ann Parish to have received a steady flow of African slaves working on the sugar plantations under the Spaniards. These are the ruins of one of the houses where slaves used to live. Very pretty site!
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Inside the Sunbury Plantation house, St. Philip Barbados.
Construction of the main house was completed in 1670 and it is one of the few houses on the island from that period, that have not been destroyed by hurricanes.
Shot near Winchester, TN. The property owner told us this was a slave's quarters at one time when the farm was booming.
Deze foto is gemaakt in Bonaire.
PEKELMEER EN SLAVENHUISJES BONAIRE
Het pekelmeer is een groot meer die grotendeels wordt gebruikt voor zoutwinning.
Bij het zoutwinningsgebied staan grote zoutpiramides.
Het meer is voor een deel ook afgeschermd.
Hier zitten nog grote flamingo kolonies.
Het meer kleurt erg mooi in de felle zon en is gedurende de rondrit vrijwel steeds te zien.
Langs de kust aan de westkant staan slavenhuisjes.
Dit zijn hele kleine huisjes van 1,5 meter hoog zonder ramen. Hier sliepen minimaal twee slaven die in de zoutwinning werkten.
Ze zijn helemaal in oorspronkelijke staat gerestaureerd.
Er zijn twee verschillende kleuren slavenhuisjes: witte en okergele slavenhuisjes.
This photo was made in Bonaire.
BRINE LAKE AND SLAVEHOUSES BONAIRE
The brine lake is a large lake that is largely used for salt extraction.
Large salt pyramids are located near the salt extraction area.
The lake is also partly protected.
There are still large flamingo colonies here.
The lake colors very nicely in the bright sun and can almost always be seen during the tour.
Along the coast on the west side are slave houses.
These are very small houses of 1.5 meters high without windows. At least two slaves who worked in salt extraction slept here.
They have been completely restored to their original state.
There are two different colors of slave houses: white and ocher-yellow slave houses.
Slave House - Rippavilla Plantation - Spring Hill, Tennessee
My wife and I were published in a historic magazine called Historic Maury. She wrote the article and I supplied the pictures. You can read more about this project and read some of the article on my blog: www.shutteringthrulife.com/1-bedroom-no-bath-sleeps-8/
Olympus OM1
Olympus OM Zuiko 50mm f1.8
Kodak Portra 400
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Franklin, TN (Williamson County)
Carter House - It was here that the Confederate soldiers broke through the Union lines before finally being repulsed. Also, it was here that a desperate man-to-man struggle raged in the yard and garden. As the Union command post, it was the center of the fighting. (1)
There are two non-contributing structures located on the property. One is a log house that has been moved to the property. (1)
Enslaved men and women were the backbone of large farms across the pre-war South, both in growth and continued production. In 1860 alone, the Carter slaves helped grow and harvest 4,000 bushels of corn, nearly 500 bushels of wheat and oats, and 12,000 pounds of cotton. This 1840s slave cabin was moved to the property in the 1960s from another farmstead in Williamson County. According to the 1860 Census, seven slave dwellings existed on the Carter property and most, if not all of them, were torn down on November 30, 1864 and the wood was used to strengthen the Federal earthworks. (from local brochure)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/66000734.pdf
One of several slave houses at Boone Hall Plantation
This picture was from my 8mm movie film (that has just been digitized) and had been filmed with an Elmo movie camera in 1983.
Slave House - Rippavilla Plantation - Spring Hill, Tennessee
My wife and I were published in a historic magazine called Historic Maury. She wrote the article and I supplied the pictures. You can read more about this project and read some of the article on my blog: www.shutteringthrulife.com/1-bedroom-no-bath-sleeps-8/
Olympus OM1
Olympus OM Zuiko 50mm f1.8
Kodak Portra 400
The FINDLab
Live oaks and Spanish moss enhance the Southern atmosphere of Gamble Mansion, one of only a couple of surviving plantation houses in Florida, but slave labour cultivated the sugar cane it once produced. The structure alongside the main building was the ice house.
Slave cabins at Laura Plantation Louisiana. Laura was run by Creoles and has a Creole style of architecture; Oak Alley was also run by a Creole family but it adopted the Greek Revival style favoured by the Anglo-Americans for their slave plantations. Oak Alley is the picture book, Gone with the Wind style of plantation. Both plantations grew “white gold” – sugar cane. They boiled it down in large cast iron vats and made molasses to be sold in the molasses, rum, cotton, and slave trade between Africa, American and Europe. Sugar made the Creole planters along the banks of the Mississippi River rich. Both plantations depended on their slaves for economic success and the Creole families treated their slaves no better, and probably a little worse than Anglo-American plantation owners elsewhere. To avoid confusion remember that Laura Plantation began as DuParc Plantation. Its name was changed to Laura in the late 19th century. Guillaume DuParc bought a small plantation from some French Cajuns (those who escaped from French Canada (Arcadia) to Louisiana) in 1804. DuParc had assisted the French Navy in their support of the Americans during the War of Independence so he wheedled a large land grant out of President Jefferson to add to his small plantation. Slaves made bricks on site to build the piers to support the house and keep it safe from river floods. Like many Creole families the control of the plantation was bestowed upon the most able person, not the elder son, and after some years the plantation was run by a succession of DuParc women. The men also tended to die early of Yellow Fever or malaria. At its peak the plantation comprised over 12,000 acres. For most of the Antebellum period it had around 300 slaves, with a long line of 69 slave cabins. The regulation size for a cabin was 16 feet by 16 feet. The last of Laura’s slave cabins was occupied by a sharecropper until 1977. Laura Locoul who was born in the plantation in 1861 at the start of the Civil War was the last Creole owner. Her slave nanny stayed with her until she married and went to the North in 1892. The other former slaves stayed on, as did most slaves in the South, and became sharecroppers after emancipation. They were then economic slaves, bound to their former slave masters by debt. As a business Laura plantation declined and the profits of earlier years were gone for the Locoul family after the civil War. The former slaves they were allotted a parcel of land to farm with hogs, a little sugar, corn etc. They were compelled to buy their seed grain from their former masters, the interest rates on these loans in advance were high and uncontrolled. Black Americans were always in debt to the white land owners, never able to leave their sharecropping property and they were hungry and destitute if crops failed and they did not make enough money to repay the white land owner for the fertilizers and seeds bought on hire purchase. Sharecropping only died out in the South in the mid 1960s with the Civil Rights movement. Laura Locoul says that she hated slavery and was determined to leave Laura Plantation when she discovered that one of the old black Americans on the plantation in the late 1860s had branded scars on his face. He had been a runaway slave and branding slaves, like cattle, assisted with their return to their “rightful owner” in Antebellum times. Laura left the plantation in 1876 to attend boarding school in New Orleans. Following her grandmother, Elizabeth Lacoul’s death in 1882 the plantation was divided between two families. By this time Laura Locoul was living in a French Quarter house in New Orleans. In 1892 she made an unthinkable marriage- to a Northern Anglo-American who lived in St. Louis. Laura Plantation was sold just before her marriage in 1891.Laura Locoul Gore died in 1963. The current owners of Laura have only recently discovered the DuParc and Locoul family records in St. Louis and in France. Alcée Fortier, a French language professor in New Orleans published stories based on African folklore like Joel Chandler Harris of Eatonton. Harris first published Uncle Remus stories in 1880, and Fortier first published folklore stories in French in 1894 supposedly from visits to Laura.
Slave House - Rippavilla Plantation - Spring Hill, Tennessee
My wife and I were published in a historic magazine called Historic Maury. She wrote the article and I supplied the pictures. You can read more about this project and read some of the article on my blog: www.shutteringthrulife.com/1-bedroom-no-bath-sleeps-8/
Olympus OM1
Olympus OM Zuiko 50mm f1.8
Kodak Portra 400
The FINDLab
Slave House - Rippavilla Plantation - Spring Hill, Tennessee
My wife and I were published in a historic magazine called Historic Maury. She wrote the article and I supplied the pictures. You can read more about this project and read some of the article on my blog: www.shutteringthrulife.com/1-bedroom-no-bath-sleeps-8/
Olympus OM1
Olympus OM Zuiko 50mm f1.8
Kodak Portra 400
The FINDLab
This is a row of the slave houses on Kingsley Plantation.
My previous camera (the D5100) was a cropped sensor and I could never get the whole row of houses. With my new camera, I can get the whole row but I'm still not happy with it… maybe I need a different lens or something.
This historic old slave house, said to be haunted, stands alone on Hickory Hill in the southern Illinois courtryside near the small town of Equality. It is a reminder of the days of slavery in Illinois, the Land of Lincoln, and the Reverse Underground Railroad.
Slave House - Rippavilla Plantation - Spring Hill, Tennessee
My wife and I were published in a historic magazine called Historic Maury. She wrote the article and I supplied the pictures. You can read more about this project and read some of the article on my blog: www.shutteringthrulife.com/1-bedroom-no-bath-sleeps-8/
Olympus OM1
Olympus OM Zuiko 50mm f1.8
Kodak Portra 400
The FINDLab
Henry Ford's family had a thing about "educating the masses" as he got older. He developed Greenfield Village to show different aspects of America's industrial and intellectual heritage.
The result is we have copies of his first factory, to Thomas Edison's home, Heinz's home, the Wright Brothers store, and the like there.
This building (a facsimile of a real house) is situated there.
The Civil War-era owners of this house actually kept slaves in the uppermost floor of this mansion. It is located in Southern Illinois and the picture dates to the late 1970's.
If you'd like to know more about the history of this place, please read the article I wrote and posted on my blog:
journeyphoto.blogspot.com/2007/11/old-slave-house.html
Camera: Minolta XD11
Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2
Film: Kodak 100 ASA daylight
Date: October 1984
Location: Junction, Illinois, U.S.A.