plantation owners
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: People or groups of people who own and oversee the high-level operation of plantations, which are agricultural complexes usually worked by resident labor, often reserved for those in tropical or sub-tropical locations. The term often has negative connotations in modern usage, because many plantations relied upon the labor of enslaved people in the 17th through 19th centuries.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Diary of J.B. Grimball
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0021
Collection Overview
Typescript copies (1937-1938) of 17 diaries (1832-1884) kept by John Berkeley Grimball of Pinebury and Old Fort Plantations, transcribed from the original by Frederica B. Keller during a 1935-1938 W.P.A. project.Entries include references to family matters, including the division of Grimball's mother's [Eliza Flinn] estate, social events, religion, a hot air balloon ascension (1834), a duel (1856), and Grimball's trips to Sulphur Srings, Virginia and elsewhere.The...
Dates:
1832-1938
Found in:
Special Collections
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Diary of J.B. Grimball