The Hampton National Historic Site near Towson tells the history of slavery at a former plantation site in Baltimore County.
click image for close-up According to Celia Davis, a slave on Pierce Butler's Hampton plantation, Fanny Kemble was a "nice white lady, very rosy, [with] clothes always got on so rich." Still a ...
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York County native shares her family's slave historyShe's been able to trace both sides of her family. Her father's side goes back to the Hampton Plantation near Towson, Maryland. "It was 25,000 acres, 24,000 square foot property. They had over 800 ...
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What To Consider When Visiting Plantation Sites in the SouthOthers rebrand the plantation's original wealthy inhabitants-slave traders who dealt in human cargo-as merchants. Once, at Hampton Plantation State Historic Site in South Carolina, I asked a ...
Archaeology at a 17th-Century Trading Plantation Site in the City of Hampton, Virginia Supported by: Virginia Department of Transportation and The City of Hampton The William & Mary Center for ...
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