Slave Plantations In Houston Texas. Included are land grant requests, wills, and testaments, letters of freedom and contracts of the sale of slaves. A group of about 50 people, black and white, stood in front of an archetypal southern gothic home, chatting amiably about slave owners and slaves.
Vol 3 contains contains mostly translated summaries documenting the black experience in texas. The destrehan plantation was the site where one of the three trials following the 1811 slave revolt took place. It dates to the era of slavery and the first plantations in the houston area.
A plantation society in the texas borderlands.
The destrehan plantation was the site where one of the three trials following the 1811 slave revolt took place. This transcription includes 68 slaveholders who held 40 or more slaves in houston county, accounting for 4,807 slaves, or 44% of the county total. Forty percent of texas slaves lived on plantations along the gulf coast and in the east texas river valleys, where they cultivated cotton, corn, and some sugar. By the 1850s, sugar was a major industry in fort bend, matagorda, wharton, and brazoria counties, which became known as the sugar bowl of texas.