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Plantation records include daily journal noting weather, types of work performed, and number of workers sick, quantity of cotton picked. Journal kept by various overseers, including John W. Butler, George R. Clark, Henry C. Eustis, and Q.F. Hawley.
Caitlin Rosenthal explores quantitative management practices on West Indian and Southern plantations, showing how planter-capitalists built sophisticated organizations and used complex accounting tools. By demonstrating that business innovation can be a byproduct of bondage Rosenthal further erodes the false boundary between capitalism and slavery.
This re-issue of the classic 1927 documentary edition by historian Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and his doctoral student, James David Glunt, features a new introduction by John David Smith about its publishing history, its editors, and its scholarly value to southern historiography. Originally published by the Missouri Historical Society, it documents the plantation records of George Noble Jones and his two Florida plantations, El Destino and Chemonie, both located near Tallahassee, Florida. Considered one of the most accurate and comprehensive accounts of plantation management ever published, it remains one of the best primary source documents on plantation overseers and management. Phillips was the leading American slavery historian in the early 20th century; Glunt went on to become a history professor at the University of Florida. "Most of the writings here published are from the pens of men of little schooling," Phillips and Glunt explain; ". . . these plantation overseers presumably could not have written in better form than they did. And yet the editors have a duty to make the text reasonably easy to read." Principally covering the middle years of the 19th century, Florida Plantation Records provides a rich array of details essential to understanding slavery and plantation life in Florida--from slave names, ages, and work loads, to medical bills and weather reports, to production records, slave family genealogical information, and post-Civil War tenant agreements. In addition to defining the historical value of the primary text, Smith's introduction evaluates the work of the editors within the context of 1920s editorial practice and historiography. Phillips held a proslavery, paternalistic view of African Americans--a bias shared by most leading historians and social scientists of the pre-civil rights era. But as Smith shows, Phillips' views did not undermine his role as a groundbreaking researcher who held himself and his contemporaries to the highest standards. Renowned for his determination and success in locating and preserving plantation manuscripts, Phillips was among the first historians to base their work on "scientific" methods. His significant publications helped to establish American slavery as a sub-field of southern history. This important volume--still relevant to scholars today--will be welcomed by historians of slavery, African American studies, the Old South, Florida, U.S. economics, and the Reconstruction era, as well as students, teachers, and libraries.
The Capell family were planters and merchants of Amite and Wilkinson counties, Mississippi. Littleton Capell, a native of South Carolina, migrated to the Mississippi Territory early in the 19th century. In 1811 he purchased land from the federal government in the south-west corner of Amite County. He established himself as a planter and held a half-interest in a general store at Rose Hill. After his death, some time in the 1830s, his wife Catherine inherited the plantation and his son, Eli Jackson Capell, inherited his father's interest in the Rose Hill store; Eli also managed the estate. At his mother's death Eli Capell inherited the plantation and her slaves. As the owner of Pleasant Hill Plantation, Eli J. Capell was a progressive agriculturalist who attempted to convince his neighbours to improve their own agricultural methods. An avid reader of farm journals, he often corresponded with editors and several of his letters of inquiry, as well as his own observations and experiments, were published in agricultural papers. Eli Capell married Margaret Anderson of Centreville, Mississippi; together they had two daughters, Kate and Ophelia, and two sons, Robert L. and Henry Clay. During the Civil War Robert L. Capell served as a private in Captain Moses Jackson's company, the 33rd Regiment of the Mississippi Volunteers; he died during his service in Franklin, Tennessee in 1865. Henry Clay Capell practised law in Centreville. Ophelia Capell attended Silliman Female Collegiate Institute in Clinton, Louisiana (c. 1868-69) and Kate married A. C. Crawford, a division superintendent of the Wrought Iron Range Company. This plantation book from 1850 has the occasional diary entry but mostly contains numerical data concerning the plantation, such as stock inventories and the amount of cotton picked by individual slaves.