Record #:

13459

Author(s):

Puryear, Kimberly

Abstract:

Stagville was one of the largest antebellum plantations in North Carolina. It covered 30,000 acres of land in Orange and three other counties on which almost nine hundred enslaved individuals worked in the years before the Civil War. Puryear describes what life there was like.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 50 Issue 1, Fall 2010, p5-8, il

Subject(s):

Plantation life--Orange County; Stagville Plantation (Durham County)