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Plantations Collection
Stagville Plantation
‘These Stories Are Important’: Durham Memorial To Honor People NC Plantation Enslaved.
Ricky Hart shares his understanding of the brutal conditions endured by his ancestors who were enslaved at the Stagville Plantation, Durham County, NC, and expresses his support for the installation of a memorial in downtown Durham, N.C., to honor them.
Meadowville Plantation
Antebellum Pamlico River plantations not surprisingly often had commercial fisheries. Several decades before the Civil War General Wm. Augustus Blount and his son, Major William Augustus Blount, operated fisheries on Blounts Bay, catching and packing herring and shad in seines (using nets) and weirs (using stakes).
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