The plantation owners and white population lived in fear of rebellions. Rebellions usually failed for the same reasons: European militia forces had access to firearms. European soldiers based on ...

Plantation owners whose slaves ran away frequently placed runway slave advertisements in local newspapers. Such ads often included a person's physical description, likely location or destination ...

Norcom had migrated from North Carolina to Mississippi. He writes to Johnston, a North Carolina plantation owner, telling him of the wealth to be made by speculating in land newly acquired from ...