Record #:

4404

Author(s):

McFarland, Kenneth M.

Abstract:

Paul C. Cameron owned one of the state's largest antebellum plantations. It encompassed over 30,000 acres in Orange and three other counties, and used 900 slaves to tend crops and handle livestock. The plantation became so large that it was eventually divided into smaller units of several thousand acres each. One division is now the Stagville State Historic Site. Cameron was the wealthiest man in the state before the Civil War and remained so after the conflict ended.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 27 Issue 1, Fall 1987, p11-13, il, por

Subject(s):

Cameron, Paul Carrington, 1808-1891; Plantations--Orange County; Plantation owners--Orange County; Plantation life--Orange County

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)