Biggest Slave Plantation In South Carolina. William aiken of colleton, south carolina: He eventually became a major planter and one of the medium property owners, and one of the wealthiest property owners in the state.
You can walk the grounds and explore the rose gardens and out buildings for free. It existed from 1785 to 1865. It’s one of the few remaining intact structures in the state where slaves once lived.
Slavery was just as important to the economy in other states as well.
But then i saw a white fence guarding the entrance to redcliffe plantation state historic site. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the federal writers' project (fwp) of the works progress administration, later renamed work projects administration (wpa). Completed in 1857, it was one of the largest mansions ever built in the south, surpassing that of the neighboring nottoway. During the 1730s, the pendarvis family was one of the most prominent in the south, owning the biggest rice plantations in the palmetto region and over 123 slaves.