Southern Life and African American History, Plantations Records Part 1 Southern Life and African American History, Plantations Records Part 1 Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: The Plantation Records in this module document the far-reaching impact of plantations on both the American South and the nation. Plantation Records are both business records and personal papers because the plantation was both the business and the home for plantation owners. Business records include ledger books, payroll books, cotton ginning books, work rules, account books, and receipts. Personal papers include family correspondence between friends and relatives, diaries, and wills. Southern Plantation Records illuminate business operations and labour routines, family affairs, roles of women, racial attitudes, relations between masters and slaves, social and cultural life, shared values and tensions and anxieties that were inseparable from a slave society. This article was published on 2024-08-21
