The Plantation Widow Rewarded Her Best Slave with a Night in Her Bed: Alabama 1841

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Beneath the moss-draped oaks of Wilcox County, Alabama, production records from Bell Haven Plantation show an impossible surge in cotton yields during the spring of 1841. A 47% increase that defied every agricultural explanation of the era. What the ledgers don't reveal is the price 23 enslaved men paid for that prosperity or why 17 of them would b... Read More