The Great Migration - from Holmes Cty, Mississippi to Chicago IL (1946)

Howard Jr Huggins (b. 1928) graduated from Saints School in Lexington MS in the Spring of 1946...

He moved to Chicago IL at @ age 19.

 

 

CHICAGO

 

Timidly,

we get off the train.

We hug our suitcases,

fearful of pickpockets.…

We are very reserved,

for we have been warned not to act green.…

We board our first Yankee street car

to go to a cousin’s home.…

We have been told

that we can sit where we please,

but we are still scared.

We cannot shake off

three hundred years of fear

in three hours.

—

RICHARD WRIGHT, 12 Million Black Voices

 

Wilkerson, Isabel (2010-09-07). The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Kindle Locations 4110-4118). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Where would the six Huggins (Travis Off-spring) be today ???

Had not Uncle Son and My daddy participated in the GREAT MIGRATION from the deep south.... up North...!!!???

Crossing that Mason-Dixon Line.....

 

The Slave Community: by Blassingame (1972)

 

 

I visit the Recreation Center / NE 50th and MLK Blvd / on Mondays with the retired ladies quilt guild.....

 

 

The have a section of free books..... and I think I obtained an original copy.....

 

I've been diligent in working on my family genealogy via 1815 - 1955....... what was life like for my people....???  in the deep south???



ANALYSIS OF THE SLAVE COMMUNITY

The Salve Community: Plantation Life in Antebellum South was published in 1972 by a renowned historian John W. Blassingame.  The book is a historiography of the era of slavery in the united state.  In order to understand the concept of slavery, the book has been written from the enslaved perspective.

The book is a revisionist study which challenges most of the earlier scholarship which suggests that the African American slaves who worked in the Caribbean plantations were docile and very submissive.   The book challenges the earlier scholarship view that African Americans slaves who worked on southern plantations enjoyed the paternalistic relationship between them and their masters.

WHere is the Watson Farm via...MISSISSIPPI PLANTATION RECORDS

WHERE TO FIND MISSISSIPPI PLANTATION RECORDS  follow this link....

(The) African American Experience in Ohio: The African-American Experience  in Ohio 1850-1920 is a digital collection brought together from a number  of individual sources specifically for this project. These sources include  manuscript collections, newspaper articles, serials, photographs, and  pamphlets. (Includes a plantation account book for Eustatia Plantation in MS) Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations From the Revolution   Through the Civil War: Series J: Selections from the Southern Historical   Collection Part 6: Mississippi and Arkansas LSU Plantation Records Collection (Lower MS): manuscript collections  documenting plantation society and economy in the Louisiana and Lower  Mississippi Valley. The plantation records and personal papers of planters,  factors, merchants, and others whose livelihood came from plantations   provide a wealth of documentation supporting research in plantation e conomy, slavery, and the social history of Southern landholding elites

HOLMES COUNTY:

Baby Place
Bee Lake

 LEFLORE COUNTY:

Hideout Plantation: Hughes(R.B.) Moor's Plantation: Moor
Pleasantview Plantation: Kearney
Rising Son Plantation: Whittington
River Bend Plantation: Pillow
Roebuck Plantation: Aron
Shellmound Plantation
Starwood Plantation
Wildwood Plantation: McLean, Merrill (Money Planting Co.)

LOWNDES COUNTY:

Barry Place
Bellemont Liberty Hall Plantation: Ervin

SANKOFA'S SLAVERY DATA COLLECTION

 Research Leads for Liberty Hall Plantation

• Location: Lowndes Co., MS
  Constructed: 1835
  History: William Ethelbert Ervin owned Liberty Hall Plantation, near Columbus, in Lowndes County, Mississippi, near Columbus. He was born to William and Eliza Dick Ervin in Sumter District, South Carolina in 1809. The family moved to Lowndes County, Mississippi, about 1832. His father died there in 1839. William E. Ervin built Liberty Hall in 1835 on the east side of the Tombigbee River. After his home was built he returned to Sumter, South Carolina, and married Sarah McGee Kennedy.
  
  
  Associated Surnames: Ervin
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• Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series J: William Ethelbert Ervin Diaries, 1839-1856, Lowndes County, Mississippi. http://www.lexis-nexis.com/cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj6.htm This collection consists of two plantation diaries kept by Ervin between 1839 and 1856. Ervin included information on buying and selling slaves, hiring slaves owned by others, providing slaves with blankets, hats, and other clothing, and paying slaves for their "Christmas work." He made lists of slave birth (and some death) dates. In 1847, he wrote out the rules for slave conduct and punishments in case the rules were broken. There were rules for how to handle quarrels, duties of husbands and wives, absence from the plantation, and the obligation of slaves to be in their quarters by 9 p.m.

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Other People Researching This Plantation

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RESOURCES

• Guide Introduction: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations Series J, Part 6 (Mississippi and Arkansas) http://www.lexis-nexis.com/cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj6.htm

Shields Plantation:    Shields Plantation

Location: Lowndes Co., MS
Constructed:
History: ----
Associated Surnames: Adams, Shields, Smith
Associated Plantations: Smith Plantation (Halifax Co., NC)

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Associated Free White Names

• Charles Shields: owner; resided in Scotland Neck, Halifax Co. North Carolina
• Howel Adams: overseer at Shields Plantation in MS
• William Ruffin Smith: executor of the Shields estate

Research Leads

• Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series J: William Ruffin Smith Papers, 1772-1959, Lowndes County, Mississippi; also North Carolina. http://www.lexis-nexis.com/cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj6.htm Most of the papers in Series 1 relate to the Mississippi plantation of Charles Shields, William Ruffin Smith's neighbor in North Carolina. Shield bought a plantation in Mississippi and took an unspecified number of slaves there to operate it under the supervision of an overseer, Howell Adams, but died shortly thereafter. Smith, as executor of the estate, administered the property for Shields's heirs. 

Lowndes Co. Links

• Lowndes Co. MS Largest Slaveholders From 1860 Slave Census Schedules, Transcribed by Tom Blake
  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajac/mslowndes.htm