Southern Plantation Owners After The Civil War. Birkbeck wood and major james e. After the civil war and the freeing of the slaves, southern plantation owners lost their workers.
Most plantation owners went into poverty and couldn't support themselves. Congressman and 28th governor of georgia What became of most of the southern plantation owners.
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Birkbeck wood and major james e. The small percentage of those who were plantation owners found themselves without a source of labor, and many plantations had to be auctioned off. 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. Today descendants of the aiken family, the maybanks, still own part of the island, having sold the remainder in 1992 to the us as part of the ace basin national wildlife refuge.