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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR3U_task-system_Jacksonville-FL.html
Many crops were grown on the plantation, but sea island cotton produced the highest profit. Grossing and processing it required a complex work structure. The task system was used to manage the many specialized requirements of sea island cotton …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQUS_plantation-crops_Jacksonville-FL.html
Cash crops, like sea island cotton, indigo, and sugar cane, made a profit for the owner. Other crops, like potatoes, okra, and yams, fed the families of both owners and slaves. Sea island cotton was highly prized because of its long, strong, an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQU7_slaves-cabins_Jacksonville-FL.html
You are standing at the edge of two worlds. You are leaving the world of the owner and entering the world of the slave. The cabin ruins before you are a vivid testament to the generations of slaves who lived there. On them depended the prosperi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQT9_kingsley-plantation_Jacksonville-FL.html
The plantation era was a time in our history of opportunity, political contradictions and great cruelty. For planters, like Zephaniah Kingsley, it was a time for amassing land and wealth. For enslaved Africans who produced the wealth it was a t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQT3_looking-back_Jacksonville-FL.html
Imagine...instead of a lush green landscape of today, a long dusty road stretches to the slave cabins and field beyond. Bent over cotton plants, under the hot sun with dust-filled air, enslaved people toil day in and day out amidst the odor of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQS9_looking-back_Jacksonville-FL.html
Imagine ... instead of the empty historic building and peaceful riverfront of today, a slave owner's family sits watching from the porch of their comfortable home as cargo-laden boats pass by on the river. Breezes off the water cool the planter…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQS2_kingsley-plantation_Jacksonville-FL.html
In the spring of 1814, Zephaniah Kingsley relocated his family to this sea island plantation. Over the next two decades he developed his controversial views on race, society, and slavery. Kingsley was a successful businessman who had strong opi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQRS_jean-ribaut_Jacksonville-FL.html
Jean Ribaut and a party of Huguenots landed the morning of May 1, 1562 on this island. Here they knelt in prayer, beseeching God's guidance and commending the natives to his care. This was the first Protestant prayer in North America.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQRC_kingsley-plantation_Jacksonville-FL.html
The plantation house symbolizes the owners and their freedom. The cabin ruins stand behind you as a testament to the enslaved and their lives of forced labor. Explore the plantation grounds and discover the stories of plantation owners and slav…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMCS_the-huguenot-memorial-site_Jacksonville-FL.html
In 1562, when France was being torn by religious strife, Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France, sent two vessels to the New World in search of a refuge for the oppressed Huguenots. Leading the expedition was the Huguenot explorer, Jean Ribaut, who…
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