73 Natchez Trace Pkwy,Natchez, Mississippi, 39120, 7 beds 8 baths 10,768 sqft 45 acres, Jackie Smith PAUL GREEN REALTORS 601-442-2768. On my way to camp I called to see Mr.Blackshear, in Springfield, who gives him a very good dinner, pure coffee. Begins August 9 entry: This Holy Sabbath morn finds me near the banks of the Brazos, without meal or meat, because of price gouging and worthless Confederate paper. I first learned of Wood from two interviews she gave to reporters in the 1870s. Gerod Brandon appears on the 1864 County Tax Rolls for Robertson County with no real estate, but 270 slaves valued at $108,000, as well as $5000 in Confederate Notes and $6,125 in horses, cattle, and other property. He owned 700 to 800 slaves on several plantations, and he "put me to work at once in the cotton field," she said. Enough to make a man gloomy. Reads Ellas letter. Dudley I think will die. Arrival of Mrs Spark and her son, other Mississippi refugees, who had found and brought Jack Lancaster. This was good for me, however. Cirodes daughter and son-in-law, Josephine and Robert White, still lived in Kentucky and disagreed with Jane Cirodes manumission of Wood; they viewed her as their inheritance. Then, in 1878, jurors ruled that Ward should pay Wood for her enslavement. A NCGenWeb Special Project Documented Slave Plantations of North Carolina is a comprehensive database of various plantations derived from a variety of information mediums. Most slaves were by their owners design and eventually by law forbidden to learn how to read and write, so they didnt leave us material that so many figures in the past did, Levengood said. Poole gone to the field. Homesick thoughts, trying to read his Bible. When the Horlbeck family bought the plantation in 1817, they opened up a brickyard and began producing bricks using the clay from the nearby Wampacheone Creek. Copyright 2019 Smithsonian Institution. Your Privacy Rights The "finest" house at the Brandon Hall Plantation, for example, was built by the enslaved. about opposition to refugees, particularly if they had much property, and the slogan rich mans war & the poor mans fight. Another refugee who had fenced up a spring. One user named Treebranch02 wrote last September: Well, I think I found the slave owner that owned my great, great, great grandfather but that is as far as I got. Begins August 11 entry. Not everyone agreed with the verdict, but the facts of her horrific story were widely accepted as credible. And when the carriage finally rolled to a stop outside of Covington, Ward's men were waiting. Today, many reparations advocates look to legislation, targeting governments for their complicity in slavery and white supremacy. Begins December 26 entry, very rainy. The Agricultural census of 1860 shows 250 improved acres, 450 unimproved, valued at $10,000. If you are interested in a house, all information, including: price, status, neighborhood, condition, etc., must be independently verified. Arrival of Jim and Middleton, and Sanford was behind with 58 negroes & some stock. Jim and Brandon go to see Oliver Carter to try and rent his place on the Brassos. No rental, but he gets corn. The database, which went online last September with 1,500 names, sets itself apart from the few other existing slave databases which limit themselves to specific plantations or to ship manifests that list the captives by their native African names, society officials said. This list is by no means complete. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]. Reynolds and Lively got married at Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant, which features nine slave cabins, referred to as "Slave Street." The move was criticized at the time, but came under . The letter continued: Jane and three children brought $2795. Sanderson hung back in Natchez. The plaintiff was Henrietta Wood, described by a reporter at the time as a spectacled negro woman, apparently sixty years old. The defendant was Zebulon Ward, a white man who had enslaved Wood 25 years before. Ward's lawyers stalled, claiming that Wood's failed antebellum suit for freedom proved his innocence. The gang located Wood's employer in Cincinnati, a boardinghouse keeper named Rebecca Boyd, and paid her to join their scheme. Thinks about people at home. Gerard Brandon, Wood's last owner, was one of the largest plantations in all of the American South. This property has much more to offer. Some pictures of the Brandon cemetery are on Flickr. In 1889, he was one of the first African-American graduates of what became Northwestern Universitys School of Law. Meat at Bulls but so hard & dry no one could eat it. Meats Esquire Jones, an opponent of secession who fears the postwar. The society Saturday held the first of four community workshops on how to use the online database at the organizations headquarters in Richmond, Virginia. The Brandons had numerous slaves and most likely used them for tobacco growing, resulting the in the prosperity that enabled the construction of the ca. The Civil War began, followed in 1863 by the Emancipation Proclamation, but Woods ordeal continued. "Not so many complications of a legal nature arise out of the old relations of master and slave as might have been expected," the New-York Tribune argued with barely concealed relief. When he died in 1951, after a long career as a lawyer, he left behind a large clan of descendants who were able to launch professional careers of their own, even as redlining and other racially discriminatory practices put a chokehold on the South Side neighborhoods where they lived. His next ferry payment was to cross the Red River on July 11, likely on his way out of Alexandria. Starts with Sandy for Col. Robertson at Salado (see Elijah Robertson). Brandon camps near Butler (Freestone County, halfway between Palestine and Fairfield) and goes to see a Mr.Morgan, apparently an acquaintance from Mississippi, who had brought slaves belonging to W. S. (or S. (The plantations were part of his wife's dowry.) All accommodations at this luxury home have private in-room (not shared) bathrooms. $$$ info@brandonhallplantation.com Closed now 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM All Rights Reserved. The Brandons were harvesters of cotton, sugarcane, and indigo and owned 700 slaves. 1864/1865, d. 1935), Adams County, Mississippi: 154 enslaved people are listed under Gerard Brandon. By the 1850s, the interstate slave trade was booming, and the Whites saw dollar signs whenever they thought of Wood. Robertson offers him use of land, offers to put the deal in writing in Belton. Her captors destination was Lexington, Kentucky, where prices for slaves had risen in tandem with the Southern cotton economy. Call List Agent for a Fact Sheet. The traders put Wood up for sale at Natchezs infamous Forks of the Road slave market. 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Brandon was originally a vast land grant to John Martin, companion of Captain John Smith, on his first voyage to America. With help from his mothers court-ordered compensation, Arthur bought a house, started a family and paid for his own schooling. The value of his real estate was $170,000 and his personal estate was $400,000. Chew constructed the first permanent dwelling consisting of a three-room brick house about twenty by sixty feet, built sometime between 1809 and 1820. Lee Hall Plantation: Richard Decatur Lee : 371159N 763432W : 72001510 : Lexington Plantation: George Mason V : 383838N 771156W . This description comes from Mortuary Customs and Beliefs of South Carolina Negroes, published in 1894 by May A. Waring in the Atlanta Constitution: Begins September 29 entry. This page also contains the line: Henrietta conducts herself well, as did some other enslaved people mentioned by name.9 But Brandon says I am really tired, sick of them and being with them, a perfect dogs life, & will disgust anyone with the . The $2,500 verdict, the largest ever of its kind, offers evidence of the generational impact such awards can have. must be sold out of this section, or hung, or I must move, as my negroes might be the cause of all the negroes being dissatisfied and many a man might loose his property by my coming here. Slaves from West Africa were first brought over to grow rice. On April 17, 1878, twelve white jurors entered a federal courtroom in Cincinnati, Ohio, to deliver the verdict in a now-forgotten lawsuit about American slavery. Few white Americans wished to dwell on those evils. The Robertson County Tax Rolls for 1866 show him with 25 horses and no real estate. In 1637, merchants John Sadler and Richard Quiney and mariner William Barber, bought Martin's Brandon. The antique papers turned out to mention slaves. Cold front. Even the judge who presided over Woods case, Phillip Swing, viewed it narrowly. More on Mandys child. He feels they are ungrateful even though he has done all he could to make them comfortable, I wont say satisfied. Wishes Poole had them on a place where had full work for them, could make them feel tired at night, & where others observed discipline, he might get along very well. His enslaved people have a wide freedom of movement at night, in a land where most of the people have no slaves, & have never been used to them, & where many say they want one for company. He fears how Poole will get along when I am gone. He will leave strict laws. Begins September 6 entry, awakened again at night by the cry of dogs & the yelling of men., Able reports a runaway, disputes over stolen money and trading done by Bill. Article. My children must thank me for the attempt to save [?] Nearly every one of the negros were satisfied as they were bought by people in the country mostly, going ahead of the prices given by the traders, Cabell wrote his wife. Finally, they announced a verdict that few expected: We, the Jury in the above entitled cause, do find for the plaintiff and assess her damages in the premises at Two thousand five hundred dollars.. Wood suffered another, unexpected setback in 1874 when her lawyer was murdered by a clients husband in an unrelated divorce case. In the same tax rolls is a J. Report of a Mrs. It reaches across all of the slave South, Levengood said. Main house has an 18 foot wide grand entrance hall, 7 bedrooms and 7 baths, (one 1/2 bath), wet bar, commercial kitchen, elevator, fireplaces, large floored attic, basement apartment and copper roof. 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