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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR8Q_slave-cabins_Jacksonville-FL.html
In front of you are the remains of 25 cabins, the homes of 60 to 80 men, women, and children. These people had the strength to survive the misery of slavery.
Before dawn, slaves left for their day's labor, or to use their specialized skills. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR7U_slave-cabins_Jacksonville-FL.html
Slaves actively resisted bondage by purposefully slowing down their work pace, faking illness, or even mutilating themselves in order to lessen their value as human property.
Resisting the inhumanity of their enslaved condition, slaves struggle…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR4Y_slave-cabins_Jacksonville-FL.html
Constructed nearly 200 hundred years ago, these cabins were home to enslaved people. Following emancipation, former slaves lived here and worked the land. Slowly, individuals and families moved away, leaving the buildings to fall into ruin.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR4S_a-very-comfortable-habitation_Jacksonville-FL.html
Historic references to the plantation house on Fort George Island are tantalizingly brief. The first detailed descriptions of the house and structural changes were recorded in the 20th century. From this vantage point, you can see the changes that…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR3W_plantation-slavery_Jacksonville-FL.html
The exploitation of enslaved people differed throughout the Americas. However, the bottom line was profit for the owner, while for the slave it was loss of freedom.
Slaves were possessions. They were viewed as a valuable commodity to be bought…
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 …