West Oak and Chatham plantations, from P.A. Champomier, Statement of the Sugar Crop Made in Louisiana in 1860-1861...
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Title
West Oak and Chatham plantations, from P.A. Champomier, Statement of the Sugar Crop Made in Louisiana in 1860-1861...
Subject
Plantations; Louisiana-Sugar; Periodical; Inventories
Description
P.A. Champomier published an annual record of the sugar crop in Louisiana. This edition, for 1860-1861, lists the two plantations to which the Maryland Jesuit's enslaved community were sold in 1838, West Oak and Chatham.
By 1861, Jesse Batey's West Oak Plantation was owned by Emily Woolfolk, the widow of Austin Woolfolk, one of the country's most notorious slave traders. Meanwhile, Henry Johnson's Chatham Plantation had been taken over John R. Thompson.
The 125 hogsheads of sugar produced at West Oak and the 185 hogsheads of sugar produced at Chatham on the eve of the Civil War represented the fruit of the unpaid labor of the survivors and their children.
By 1861, Jesse Batey's West Oak Plantation was owned by Emily Woolfolk, the widow of Austin Woolfolk, one of the country's most notorious slave traders. Meanwhile, Henry Johnson's Chatham Plantation had been taken over John R. Thompson.
The 125 hogsheads of sugar produced at West Oak and the 185 hogsheads of sugar produced at Chatham on the eve of the Civil War represented the fruit of the unpaid labor of the survivors and their children.
Creator
Publisher
Georgetown Slavery Archive
Date
1861
Contributor
Adam Rothman
Format
Digitized book
Language
English
Type
Book
Identifier
GSA60
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Book
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Citation
Internet Archive, “West Oak and Chatham plantations, from P.A. Champomier, Statement of the Sugar Crop Made in Louisiana in 1860-1861...,” Georgetown Slavery Archive, accessed July 27, 2024, http://slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu/items/show/68.