On November 15** went ot hear a Mr. ( photo) Brandon House , ca. ( photo 1; photo 2 ) Yet Wood v. Ward did not set a sweeping legal precedent. His wife Charlotte (39) and children Elmina (16), James (14), Charlotte (12), Sarah (9), Agnes (9), Mary (5), and Alice (4) are listed a fellow members of the household. Wood's victory briefly made her lawsuit national news. H. Weir of Centerville, who hit me a dig.. He came 407 miles.. and Mimy and three children $2505. Even the judge who presided over Woods case, Phillip Swing, viewed it narrowly. They also said that Ward's alleged crimes had occurred too far in the past a recurring argument against reparations. PIN IT Sharing is caring! 2. She was soon sold again, to a French immigrant, William Cirode, who took her to New Orleans. This property has much more to offer. Brandon married Charlotte Smith Hoggatt in 1840 in Adams County, Mississippi. If he followed the road from San Augustine to Crockett pictured on Texas Map (1865), then he likely passed through Nacogdoches as well. On July 1, 1863, just days before the U.S. Army arrived to free thousands of people around Natchez, Brandon, determined to defy emancipation, forced some 300 slaves to march 400 miles to Texas, far beyond the reach of federal soldiers. I first learned of Wood from two interviews she gave to reporters in the 1870s. 33 slave dwellings were also noted. On July 1, 1863, just days before the U.S. Army arrived to free thousands of people around Natchez, Brandon, determined to defy emancipation, forced some 300 slaves to march 400 miles to Texas, far beyond the reach of federal soldiers. In 1834, the teenager was bought by a merchant in Louisville and taken from her family. Often there was a human connection, and they grew up with these people, and they recorded their birth dates and deaths. This article is a selection from the September 2019 issue of Smithsonian magazine. The Robertson County Tax Rolls for 1866 show him with 25 horses and no real estate. She spent the first nights of her captivity locked inside two roadside inns. I whippped him a little. Anthony has the money. In the eyes of Kentucky law, Wood was a slave. W. Caleb McDaniel is a professor of history at Rice University. The database, which went online last September with 1,500 names, sets itself apart from the few other existing slave databases which limit themselves to specific plantations or to ship manifests that list the captives by their native African names, society officials said. As one put it, Wood's award was "not a liberal equivalent for the loss of liberty" she had suffered, but it would "be applicable to a great many cases yet untried.". Zebulon Ward was their man. She would one day recall that period of her life as a sweet taste of liberty.. Brandon Plantation was situated in the area where the regularized production of bright leaf tobacco was developed in the 1820s, an industry requiring slave labor. One of the Grandest Greek Revival Plantation Homes in the South. Snowfall, the deepest I ever saw in the South. Begins December 31 entry, bitter cold, water freezes on the shelf inside his cabin. Travels to Belton in buggy. Begins August 24 entry: no beef as yet now for four days. Slaves dissatisfied. Reflections on number of slaves he has brought: I am now content & feel if I can take care of what I have, I shall do very well., Doesnt like to hire out, & to feed them in idleness, they will soon eat their heads off. Learns of a meeting of locals for resolutions on refugees and the some 1000 or 1500 negroes moved into the region. Someone offers to speak up in Brandons defense, as mine looked clean & orderly. Williams has sent a ham, bucket of butter, & three water mellons. Begins August 29 entry: demands from persons wanting to hire negroes.. The free, public website also provides a high-resolution copy of the antique documents that identify the slave. Yet Wood v. Ward did not set a sweeping legal precedent. Its a model and I hope the rest of the states catch up real quickly.. The whole country bleeds and is in mourning. Wood was never allowed to testify, however, and Ward denied her claims. Though a fraction of what Wood had asked for, the amount would be worth nearly $65,000 today. This article originally appeared in Smithsonian Magazine. The 1860 slave census shows 52 slaves on Fish Haul. Brandon Hall in Natchez, MS was built by Gerard Brandon and his wife Charlotte (Hoggatt). The plantation was named after its original owner, Major John Boone, who came to the Carolina colony from Bermuda. 1850 - According to the District Census, Boone Hall was producing 4,000,000 bricks per year using 85 slaves . However, at the height of the slave era (1830-1860), only a few thousand masters owned as many as 300 people. Her captors' destination was Lexington, Kentucky, where prices for slaves had risen with the Southern cotton economy. In the first half of the 19th century, there were as many as 85 slaves working at the plantation. The value of his real estate was $170,000 and his personal estate was $400,000. Drayton Hall's African American history interpretation began with Richmond Bowens, who was descended from enslaved African Americans at Drayton Hall. The Boone Hall Plantation, located in Mt. Discovered that several men (Isaac, [Matt] & Charley) had been in the hog business, cost me $30 (noted in ledger on p.9, Brandons page 14); medicine scarce; Oh! Between 1820 and 1860, nearly one million people were sold down the river.. Severe rain and wind. The trial began only after eight years of litigation, leaving Wood to wonder if she would ever get justice. Wood was an early contributor to a long tradition of formerly enslaved people and their descendants demanding redress. Ownership was also an investment: purchased children and adults may or may not have been . For them, the money Henrietta Wood demanded for her enslavement made a long-lasting difference. ADAMS Formed in 1799 from Natchez District Anchorage Plantation North - Griffith Auburn Plantation - Duncan Avalange Plantation - Harper I cant quite tell my age, Wood recalled in a newspaper interview in 1876, but she knew she was born enslaved to the Tousey family between 1818 and 1820. In 1889, he was one of the first African-American graduates of what became Northwestern University's School of Law. In view of all this he is satisfied he brought as many slaves as he ought to have done, (for sometimes I have regreted [sic] I did not bring more) for after hiring out a good lot I have now more than I can find work for & am feeding on an expense which will in one or two years (if the war continues that long, but I sometimes wish it was over now) will make them cost very high. He goes down the Brassos on Thursday to get corn, sees some fine plantations, the people look more like home folks, but Texas shows out, viz. Begins December 27 entry. Now, she watched nervously as the 12 jurors returned to their seats. (this book has a wealth of info on slaves - since many of the people listed were freed in wills - details of emancipation are there as well as detailed physical descriptions) : Estate of Sara Brandon Rickey, 2000), 79, available at Historic Natchez Foundation., In 1872, Brandon was still in a legal dispute over an assumption of debt on a plantation he purchased in Tensas Parish (LA) from Hughes, who moved to Texas in 1862 or 1863. Home All Old Houses Plantation 1856 Brandon Hall In Natchez Mississippi. herculoids gloop and gleep sounds Begins October 21, the most melancholly day I have had in Texas. James (Jim) leaves for home & from thence to the army., Begins October 25 entry. p.4: Some more deaths; notes about wagon loads, presumably of cotton bales; ferriage and tolls on the route to Texas, pp. One is hiring negroes to go 300 miles west for the government. Brandon sends 40. It is believed that the name Brandon came from the family name of Martin's wife . Ella Brandon Stantons daughter, Charlotte Brandon (1866-1936), married Dunbar Surget Merrill. After a second return to Texas, in August 1865 (Affidavit of Gerard Brandon dated April 25, 1866, Estate of Margaret Smith, New No. The freedom suit had prevented Ward from selling Wood for nearly two years, but in 1855, he took her to a Kentucky slave-trading firm that did business in Natchez, Mississippi. My children must thank me for the attempt to save [?] Not everyone agreed with the verdict, but the facts of her horrific story were widely accepted as credible. Yes, Boone Hall Plantation did have slaves right from the time it was established in 1681. By suing Ward for the wages she had lost while owned by Brandon, her lawyers made clear that a verdict for Wood was an acknowledgment of the evils of slavery itself. Arrival of Jim and Middleton, and Sanford was behind with 58 negroes & some stock. Jim and Brandon go to see Oliver Carter to try and rent his place on the Brassos. No rental, but he gets corn. to Mr. Agee and then allowed Mr. Turner to take Mimy as he owned her husband. Known as the Robintation Tree, it is said to have been quite feared by the slaves of the plantation. Its a database for the ones that are coming up. Cirodes daughter and son-in-law, Josephine and Robert White, still lived in Kentucky and disagreed with Jane Cirodes manumission of Wood; they viewed her as their inheritance. II, p. 817, which claimed that at the beginning of the Civil War, Brandon owned a million dollars worth of slaves. Cookie Settings, Illustration by Cliff Alejandro; Source material: W. Caleb McDaniel; NYPL (3), Subscribe to Smithsonian magazine now for just $12, Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America, Dried Lake Reveals New Statue on Easter Island. Plantation records reveal nearly every aspect of plantation life. Pleasant, South Carolina, is one of America's oldest working plantations, with a history dating back to 1681. Sign up so you don't miss a single old house!!! 2023 Smithsonian Magazine Harriss said many architectural features were kept true to the original design when the house was renovated in the mid-1980s, apart from closets, bathrooms, and the closed in porch. But these people were writing down their inventory as if you would for insurance purposes. Captivating Houses is NOT a real estate company, it is an opinion-based blog and does NOT represent any property or agency. In 1807, at the death of Benjamin Harrison III (1743-1807), his will divided the . After her suit, she moved with her son to Chicago. Unsure of his next steps, whether to visit home and be on the dodge all the time, the great fear I have is being sent to a northern prison.. The Brandons had numerous slaves and most likely used them for tobacco growing, resulting the in the prosperity that enabled the construction of the ca. The ghost of a woman whose fiance died before they could be . Documents citing slaves go back to the 1690s: Thats when slavery starts to grow fast in Virginia and other English colonies, Levengood said. His next ferry payment was to cross the Red River on July 11, likely on his way out of Alexandria. The Liberator: A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Cause of Good Government and the Advancement of the American Negro, Los Angeles, California, 29 November 1912, page 5. not the care, pains & comfort in fixing up places. He couldnt find corn. Grain and food were raised for local use. Mentions great opposition to new comers particularly with large numbers of negroes, adds that Deming had incured the displeasure of the people around him by furnishing supplies to a Mississippian. Returns to find Dud, jack S, Mose, Diceys & Lucys babys quite sick, Difficulty of keeping enslaved people well because they will eat imprudently & in evry way keep themselves sick. The private, nonprofit historical society, the fourth-oldest in the nation, is assembling a growing roster of slaves names and other information, such as the slaves occupations, locations and plantation owners names, said Levengood. The $2,500 verdict, the largest ever of its kind, offers evidence of the generational impact such awards can have. Few white Americans wished to dwell on those evils. Louisiana, U.S., Slave Manumission Records, 1719-1820. See Gerard Brandon, The Brandon Family, ed. It would be 16 years before Wood set foot in Ohio again. Cirode returned to France in 1844, abandoning his wife, Jane, who eventually took Wood with her to Ohio, a free state. Varina Banks Howell, dau of William & Margaret Howell, married Jefferson Davis on Feb 26, 1845 in the parlor of The Briars. Sanderson to Texas.8 While at Morgans, he is introduced to Oliver Carter near Fairfield, who put him in touch with a Mr.Deming, who had a too-small place for sale, and not until January 7. As one put it, Woods award was not a liberal equivalent for the loss of liberty she had suffered, but it would be applicable to a great many cases yet untried.. Eats well on the road. Dudley I think will die. Arrival of Mrs Spark and her son, other Mississippi refugees, who had found and brought Jack Lancaster. This heritage is currently documented on the plantation's grounds, in exhibits at nine of the original property's slave cabins. ), so Poole (overseer) left, presumably with slaves. Brandon was the eldest son of the Mississippi Governor Gerard Chittocque Brandon (1788-1850) and Margaret Chambers. Saving Slave Houses Project Preservationist Jobie Hill gave a tour of the Brandon Plantation in southern Virginia and talked about her Saving Slave Houses project and read more Report. One user named Treebranch02 wrote last September: Well, I think I found the slave owner that owned my great, great, great grandfather but that is as far as I got. 1847, d. 1885; married Joseph C. Pierce, Agnes Brandon (b. June 29, 1851, d. January 19, 1862; see, Sarah Brandon (b. June 29, 1851, d. December 13, 1862; see, Charles Gerard Brandon (b. Slave traders met the demand by buying slaves in Virginia, Kentucky and Maryland and selling them in the cotton states. Brandon Hall is a beautifully restored plantation home that dates back to 1856. It would be 16 years before Wood set foot in Ohio again. Also Brandon Hall in Reid Smith and John Owens, The Majesty of Natchez (Montgomery, Ala.: Paddle Wheel Publications, 1969): it is obvious that he, like so many of his contemporaries, had succumbed to the Greek Revival era of elegance. Enough to make a man gloomy. Reads Ellas letter. Woods victory briefly made her lawsuit national news. Then the crops of choice became cotton and indigo. Most furnishings along with the commercial equipment & supplies will stay. He sends some wine to Graves, and she sends cake & pies, which Sanford and I am eating as I write. Begins December 30 entry, hunting deer. Inside, behind the handsomely recessed main entrance, were parlor rugs from the Orient, services of English silver, mantels of the finest Italian marble and great pier mirrors from France., Since the 1860 slave schedule was not searchable at the time, the page numbers are provided for the Mississippi and Louisiana slave schedules., The affidavit says that on the 1st of July, 1863, the pending war, and the exigencies of the times compelled his hasty departure from this state for the state of Texas, where he was detained until February 1864. Buttermilk at Robertsons. The bulk of his papers are in several collections at Historic Natchez Foundation. Begin August 20 entry. Newspapers described Wood's suit as an "old case" or a "relic of slavery times," consigning stories like hers to a fading past. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. 1842 wing of the residence. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links. The postwar constitutional amendments that abolished slavery and extended national citizenship to ex-slaves enabled Wood to pursue Ward in federal court. Hes hoping his 12 grandchildren can benefit from his work. A NCGenWeb Special Project Documented Slave Plantations of North Carolina is a comprehensive database of various plantations derived from a variety of information mediums. So using a $100,000 corporate grant from Dominion, one of the nations largest producers and transporters of energy, society researchers began examining some of its 8 million manuscripts that Virginia residents have been giving to the historical society since its founding in 1831. She was soon sold again, to a French immigrant, William Cirode, who took her to New Orleans. You can explore lives and stories of these slaves at the 9 slave cabins in the plantation where the Black History in America Exhibit is displayed. Brandons family was one of the staunchest supporters of the Confederacy in the area. Some newspapers even predicted that lawsuits like hers would proliferate. The Brandons were harvesters of cotton, sugarcane, and indigo and owned 700 slaves. this property for them for I have seen sights of trouble more than I can ever describe or make them sensible of. Begins August 13 entry. For them, the money Henrietta Wood demanded for her enslavement made a long-lasting difference. Perfect for an unforgettable. Photograph: Jessica Crawford. Destructive 'Super Pigs' From Canada Threaten the Northern U.S. Did an Ancient Magnetic Field Reversal Cause Chaos for Life on Earth 42,000 Years Ago? Conversation with Dr.Killibrou (?) The Prospect Hill Plantation is without a doubt one of the most historically significant sites in the state. They note that disenfranchisement and segregation only worsened the racial wealth gap, which was established under slavery and remains today. appreciated. "My mistress gave me my freedom," Wood later said, "and my papers were recorded." Friends visit from Waco. A native Kentuckian who had recently moved to Covington, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, Ward became a deputy sheriff in 1853. Begins September 28 entry. Loundon Co. Duncan, Patricia B. Abstracts of Loudoun County Virginia Register of Free Negroes 1844-1861.Willow Bend Books, Westminster Maryland, 2000. When the Horlbeck family bought the plantation in 1817, they opened up a brickyard and began producing bricks using the clay from the nearby Wampacheone Creek. Before the Civil War, large Southern rice and cotton plantations depended on enslaved African Americans to operate successfully. And when the carriage finally rolled to a stop outside of Covington, Ward's men were waiting. Between 1820 and 1860, nearly a million people were sold "down the river.". So I find my negroes out of doors, & stock poor, corn high & some difficulty to get it, & separated from my family." The tract was known as Martin's Brandon. Some newspapers even predicted that lawsuits like hers would proliferate. CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. Brandon mentions his diary in a letter to his daughter Ella, dated October 21, 1863, and found in the Vonkersburg Family Collection at the Historic Natchez Foundation. A native Kentuckian who had recently moved to Covington, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, Ward became a deputy sheriff in 1853. Headed back to TX today using same route Brandon took with slaves, including Wood, in 1863. In the same tax rolls is a J. Phoebe is living with a good family for her food and clothing only. Begins December 26 entry, very rainy. A historical society in Virginia, where slavery began in the American colonies in 1619, has discovered the identities of 3,200 slaves from unpublished private documents, providing new information for todays descendants in a first-of-its-kind online database, society officials say. Brandon Hall Plantation, built ca 1856 by Gerard Brandon, U.S. 61, Washington. You have to read between the lines: Oh, they mention Amy in a letter, and then you have to read another letter in the collection to realize that Amy is a slave and not a family member, Levengood said. Land he sees will do fine for small Farmers of from 1 to 20 hands to make a living on, but to plant extensively or make a fortune I should never come here except on the creeks. Hasnt seen good hogs. My mistress gave me my freedom, Wood later said, and my papers were recorded. Wood spent the next several years performing domestic work around Cincinnati. Bowens was born at Drayton in 1908, and returned to Charleston from Chicago in the 1970s. If you are as captivated as I am, then spend as much time as you like, browsing through their historic beauty! Robertson offers him use of land, offers to put the deal in writing in Belton. MORE VIRGINIA SLAVERY RESOURCES. This mansion on the outskirts of Natchez was once the centerpiece of a large cotton plantation located on the Natchez Trace. Those Virginia families found the old, handwritten papers in attics, basements or desk drawers, Levengood said. Most rural enslaved people were owned by masters who had 10-20 enslaved people, who often were housed in closer proximity to masters, perhaps sharing housing, and perhaps having access to closer relations with their masters than plantation slaves had. Janes husband exclaimed just as she was knocked out to his master Glory to God on high, peace and good will to men on earth and it seemed to pop from his very soul. The house was built c. 1765 by . $$$ info@brandonhallplantation.com Closed now 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM See Goodspeeds entry on the Brandon family. Ward planned to make Wood the latest victim of this trade, but she resolved to fight. She has learned to weave and is well satisfied your brother[-in-law] says. See Gerard B. Rickey and Alan C. Rayne, ed., I Will Write if I Have to Use a Stick: Letters from HomeCornelia Jane Shields Letters to her Children, 1864-1865 (University Park, Tex. A second ferry location is illegible, but he also paid for ferries across Cocodrie Bayou and Cross Bayou. The plaintiff was Henrietta Wood, described by a reporter at the time as a spectacled negro woman, apparently sixty years old. The defendant was Zebulon Ward, a white man who had enslaved Wood 25 years before. This was the most valuable property they owned, and they wanted to make sure it was recorded. Gerard Brandon (1818-1874) was the Mississippi planter who purchased Henrietta Wood and then took her to Robertson County, Texas, during the Civil War. Wood secretly told her story to a sympathetic innkeeper who followed her to Lexington, where a lawsuit was filed on her behalf asserting that she was free. More on Mandys child. The letter continued: Jane and three children brought $2795. Sanford Poole & Sandy had gone to kill a deer. Middleton arrives, and he gets a package from home. 1841, d. 1859 in the, Elizabeth Elmina C. Ella Brandon (b. In 1637, merchants John Sadler and Richard Quiney and mariner William Barber, bought Martin's Brandon. : Estate of Sara Brandon Rickey, 2000), 63n6., Thanks to Will Jones for locating Brandons name in the county tax rolls as part of his RA Assignments for Fall 2015., See Map of Robertson County, Portal to Texas History., Sandersons 72 slaves, valued at $64,800 appear in the Freestone County Tax Roles for 1864. All rights reserved. Meat at Bulls but so hard & dry no one could eat it. Meats Esquire Jones, an opponent of secession who fears the postwar. The Civil War began, followed in 1863 by the Emancipation Proclamation, but Woods ordeal continued. Not everyone agreed with the verdict, but the facts of her horrific story were widely accepted as credible. According to scarborough2003, p. 432, Brandon owned 706 enslaved people on plantations in Adams County (512), Concordia Parish (113) and Tensas Parish (81) in the 1860 Census, making him the tenth largest slaveholder in Scarborough's sample for 1860, even though he does not appear on Scarborough's sample of planters with over 500 slaves in 1850. Not so many complications of a legal nature arise out of the old relations of master and slave as might have been expected, the New York Tribune argued with barely concealed relief. A record now at the National Archives in Chicago confirms that he did, in 1879. It remains the largest known sum ever granted by a U.S. court in restitution for slavery. Many newspapers described Woods suit as an old case or a relic of slavery times, consigning stories like hers to a fading past. Nearly every one of the negros were satisfied as they were bought by people in the country mostly, going ahead of the prices given by the traders, Cabell wrote his wife. Copyright 2023, Charles S. Darden Not only business operations and day-to-day labor routines, but family affairs, the roles of women, racial attitudes, relations between masters and slaves, social and cultural life, the values shared by members of the planter class, and Mandys child died. On the page opposite the list of deaths, there are also notations about Middletons expenses. At some point during those hellish days, Wood gave birth to Arthur, whose father is unknown. The database features a public message board, filled with notes posted by users searching for ancestors who may have been slaves. about opposition to refugees, particularly if they had much property, and the slogan rich mans war & the poor mans fight. Another refugee who had fenced up a spring. Elsewhere in the database is a stark description of the sale of slaves and goods in a February 11, 1858, typed letter from slaveholder William Daniel Cabell of Benvenue in Nelson County, Virginia, to his wife, Elizabeth Nicholas Cabell. This list is by no means complete. The study found 3,777 Negro slave owners in the United States. On my way to camp I called to see Mr.Blackshear, in Springfield, who gives him a very good dinner, pure coffee. Begins August 9 entry: This Holy Sabbath morn finds me near the banks of the Brazos, without meal or meat, because of price gouging and worthless Confederate paper. Mitchell.. Poole gone to the field. Homesick thoughts, trying to read his Bible. Ward began to plot with a group of these notorious "slave catchers." In 1987 the home was completely renovated and restored, perfectly duplicating the original construction. If you are interested in a house, all information, including: price, status, neighborhood, condition, etc., must be independently verified. I really sometimes wish the war was ended, & would rejoice to hear the glad tidings of peace. Begins August 30 entry awakened by a fuss about eggs & a chicken and a slave who has robbed a hen house of a neighbor last night. Learned of others who had been to a poor mans house to beg bread & meat, another robbery of rye to make coffee. Brandon vexed, curses. All Rights Reserved. Betsy brought $1400. Fortunately for this country the institution of slavery has passed away, he had instructed the jurors, and we should not bring our particular ideas of the legality or morality of an institution of that character into Court or the jury-box. He had cautioned the jurors against an excessive award, claimingfalselythat many former slaveholders already regretted slavery. 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