Cotton plantation record antd account book,3 popular in the 1 all material in this study not otherwise designated is drawn from the diary. These manuscripts consist of business records, account books, slave lists, overseers reports, diaries, private letters exchanged among family members and friends, and even an occasional letter written by a literate slave. They also record when a slave was bought, from whom, and for how much. Produced by thomas affleck in mobile, alabama, and published in 1859 specifically for use on cotton plantations. The cotton plantation record and account book is a blank ledger presenting accounts of w. Also includes a photocopy of a jamaica slave plantation by ulrich b. Thomas falconer cotton plantation account book, with journal of slave financial accounts and family records newly created pdfs on this website are accessible. Researching a slaveholders genealogy can be a timeconsuming task, but fortunately, there are many genealogies for south carolina slaveholders. But design systems are not the biggest umbrella, so to speakthey exist under broader social, political, and infrastructural systems that affect the parameters, limitations, and variables of. Falconer plantation account ledger book with journal of slave financial accounts and family records. Manuscriptmixed material, plantations library of congress.
The planting community and the press have fully recognized the simplicity and completeness of this work, and its perfect adaptation to the end in viewthat of affording to planters and their overseers, a plain and uniform book of blanks, embracing every record and account necessary to be kept upon a plantation. Leflore family ledger recording the work and debts of. Account journal documenting daily work, conditions, and other records for the greenwood plantation in montgomery. A standardized journal kept by plantation owners, the account book tracked metrics like slave productivity. The cotton plantation record and account book, mentioned in the chapter, gave the following instructions to overseers. Forms included in afflecks sugar plantation record and account book. Cotton plantation record and account book wikipedia.
Cotton plantation record and account book wikiwand. The disturbing parallels between modern accounting and the. North carolina and virginia plantations a guide to the microfilm edition of. Did you know nominations cotton plantation record and account book. These journals record the amount of cotton produced.
Daily record of cotton picked by each slave at buena vista plantation. Worthy park plantation records, accounts and records 17911811 in volume titled, plantation book. To link to the entire object, paste this link in email, im or document to embed the entire object, paste this html in website to link to this page, paste this link in email, im or document to embed this page, paste this html in website. Records of antebellum southern plantations from the. Account journal documenting daily work, conditions, and other records for the greenwood plantation in montgomery county, texas, near danville. The end of the volume documents the shipping of cotton from. This diary is recorded in the cotton plantation record and account book, published by thomas affleck 1859. Elijah butts plantation account book, 18431865 archival. Account log books give the names of slaves, family relationships, and their assigned tasks. Suitable for a force of 80 hands, or under affleck, thomas on.
Some scholars think depreciation took off with the railroads in the late 19th century. African american slavery and bondage familysearch wiki. University publications of america records of antebellum southern plantations series i, part 1, reel 9. Afflecks cotton plantation record and account book, which was first published around 1850, was made up of ruled folio that was divided into fifteen types of records of pages a through p.
Many plantations used a standard accounting system described in thomas afflecks plantation record and account books. Ledger recording the work and debts of primarily africanamerican sharecroppers and contract laborers on a cotton plantation in carroll county, mississippi owned by the leflore family, a prominent choctaw family. Ledoux and company, pointe coupee parish, louisiana. Pulliam, overseers of the sugar plantation owned by a. A quartercentury of a mississippi plantation 357 for quarterly inventories of stock and farnm implements, and during the picking season, a daily record of the cotton picked. It was first published in 1847 or 1848 by thomas affleck 18121868, a scottish immigrant and owner of the glenblythe plantation in gay hill, washington county, texas. Through experimentation and publication of books and articles, affleck contributed to the progress of agriculture in texas and the south. Evidence the cotton plantation record and account book.
The record keeping was to be completed by either the owner of the plantation or his overseer. Thomas falconer cotton plantation account book, with. This oneofakind book contains handwritten records that include inventories of stock and implements, daily records of events and of cotton picked, expenses, physicians visits, births and deaths of slaves. Cotton plantation record antd account book,3 popular in the.
Printed in new orleans, these books offered the opportunity to make entries under titles such as daily record of passing events,daily record of cotton picked, and planters annual record of his negroes. Add tags for new edition of the plantation record and account book by thomas affleck. Larger plantations, especially those growing sugar and cotton, required an endless stream of human labor in varied jobs. Afflecks book was a onestopshop accounting manual, complete with rows and columns that tracked perworker productivity.
The hammet family papers when not discarded out of hand, personal papers and organizational records can sometimesthrough a series of bequeathals, purchases, and other transfersmake. The collection consists of a 48page ledger book that documents the harrison family plantation both as a part of the estate of james harrison and after the estate was settled. Cotton plantation record and account book infogalactic. On kpfas against the grain, listen to caitlin rosenthal consider slaverys place within the development of american capitalism. During the antebellum period of united states history, the southern states generated an unprecedented amount of wealth through a well developed plantation system that produced vast quantities of co. This book compares investigations of archaeological remains at sites once occupied by slaves.
Thomas affleck, a scot, had studied agriculture at the university of edinburgh before moving to america, getting married and operating several plantations in the south. Suitable for a force of 80 hands, or under unknown binding 1859 by thomas affleck author see all formats and editions hide other formats and editions. If you have a disability and need this pdf in an alternate format, please contact. The cotton plantation record and account book is a bestselling and pioneering guide to farm accounting in the antebellum cotton producing regions of the united states. Forms included in afflecks cotton plantation record and account book. Several journals were kept in thomas afflecks cotton plantation record and account book series. Living conditions and status patterns in the old south presents the results of historical archaeological investigations at cannons point, an antebellum seaisland cotton plantation off the georgia coast. Suitable for a force of 40 hands, or under page 72 description. Through careful analysis of plantation records, caitlin rosenthal explores the development of quantitative management practices on west indian and southern plantations. As a result of our continuing investigations of plantation accounting records, both in the us and the british west indies, we believe that accounting is much more.
The cotton plantation record and account book, first published in 1847 or 1848 by thomas affleck 18121868, a scottish immigrant and owner of the glenblythe plantation in gay hill, washington county, texas, was a bestselling and pioneering guide to farm accounting in the antebellum cotton producing regions of the united states. Overseers were also usually provided housing, a small garden of their own, other provisions, and, possibly, a horse or. Records of antebellum southern plantations from the revolution through the civil war university publications of america series f selections from the rare book, manuscript, and special collections library, duke university part 4. Included is a page with the heading a statement of the lotts of negroes belonging to the heir of james harrison. Design systems create an umbrella to to define the future of our design work.
Elijah butts contains 18421843 record of cotton bought by elijah butts, citing name of seller, description of cotton including mark, and cost. Plantation record book kept by samuel leigh and lewis f. It was first published in 1847 or 1848 by thomas affleck, a scottish immigrant and owner of the glenblythe plantation in gay hill, washington county, texas. These books contained several advanced techniques, including instructions on how to calculate depreciation. New edition of the plantation record and account book by. Records were kept in printed books called the cotton plantation record and account book by thomas affleck. In order to identify records of interest, you must first examine the genealogy of slaveholding families. From this interaction was born accounting for slavery, just published by harvard university press, in which rosenthal examines such records to understand slaveholders management and accounting techniques.
The search for enslaved ancestors requires research in the records of slaveholding families. Cotton plantation record and account book grosvenor rare. The nineteen volumes extant, together with other capell manuscript records herein discussed, are the property of. Affleck, thomas the handbook of texas online texas. His cotton plantation record and account book and sugar plantation record and account book, prepared as a record of glenblythe, became models for other planters in the area. Cotton plantation record and account book explained. A content comparison of antebellum plantation records and. Pleasant hill plantation record and account book, 1850. Accounting for slavery is a unique contribution to the decadeslong effort to understand new world slaverys complex relationship with capitalism. His cotton plantation record and account book and sugar plantation record and account book, became models for other plantation owners. Plantation entrepreneurs developed spreadsheets, like thomas afflecks plantation record and account book, which ran into eight editions circulated until the civil war. The cotton plantation record and account book is a bestselling and pioneering guide to farm accounting in the antebellum cottonproducing regions of the united states.
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