Plantation Records was started by Shelby Singleton. The label had only 1 hit with "Harper Valley PTA" (by Jeannie C. Riley), but those profits allowed Singleton to purchase Sun Records from Sam Phillips in 1969.
The plantation diary is for Roncal plantation in Tangipahoa Parish.
Plantation journals (volume 1: 1854-1861, 1876-1880) and (volume 2: 1861-1866) record the weather, work done by his hands on the cotton, corn, pea, and fruit crops, the dates of the first cotton bloom for the year, and the amount of cotton picked.
Plantation diaries and correspondence of Charles Oxley, Kenner's son-in-law and husband of Martha Kenner, record activities at Roseland Plantation.
The impact of the ante-bellum southern plantations on the lives of their fl and white inhabitants, as well as on the political, economic, and cultural life of the South as a whole, is one of the most fascinating and controversial problems of present-day American historical research.
Ann recorded what she knew of her maternal grandparents, Elizabeth Sharples and Richard Bradley, who moved to Wilmington from Pennsylvania; her parents, Mary Bradley and William Green; and her personal memories of the War of 1812 in Wilmington when she was sixteen years old.
Arthur Souter was the overseer of the Burgwyn plantation.
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