{"id":462,"date":"2009-10-07T07:35:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T12:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=462"},"modified":"2009-10-06T00:17:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T05:17:56","slug":"slave-labor-on-southern-plantations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/slave-labor-on-southern-plantations\/","title":{"rendered":"Slave Labor on Southern Plantations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_466\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jan-28-2009-vid00012_1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-466\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-466\" title=\"Wessyngton Tobacco Field\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jan-28-2009-vid00012_1-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"Wessyngton Tobacco Field\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jan-28-2009-vid00012_1-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jan-28-2009-vid00012_1-1024x721.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jan-28-2009-vid00012_1.jpg 1325w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wessyngton Tobacco Field<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\">Slaves toiled endlessly, clearing land, plowing fields, raising livestock, erecting buildings, and planting crops to transform frontier landscapes into lavish plantations.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\">The enslaved population on Wessyngton Plantation primarily produced tobacco, which was very labor intensive.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>In 1860, <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>250,000 pounds of tobacco was produced on Wessyngton making it the largest producer of tobacco in the United States and the second largest in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/fig-46-tobacco-fields-at-wessyngton-plantation.bmp\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slaves toiled endlessly, clearing land, plowing fields, raising livestock, erecting buildings, and planting crops to transform frontier landscapes into lavish plantations. \u00a0 The enslaved population on Wessyngton Plantation primarily produced tobacco, which was very labor intensive.\u00a0 In 1860, \u00a0250,000 pounds of tobacco was produced on Wessyngton making it the largest producer of tobacco in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,13,1],"tags":[265,24,12,573,45,266,264,212,267,8,26,263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}