1841 CONFEDERATE OFFICER & PLANTATION OWNER. On Managing a Plantation and the Economy of Slave Labor Commentary “Last Thursday we had a

“Last Thursday we had a scene that would have amused the little boys

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1841 CONFEDERATE OFFICER & PLANTATION OWNER. On Managing a Plantation and the Economy of Slave Labor Commentary “Last Thursday we had aVery rare "Southern Planter" periodical with an important series of lengthy articles on the value and skill of "negro slaves" owned by Confederate soldier and friend of Stonewall Jackson who died at Appomattox. Stapleton Crutchfield [1835 1865] was the son of important Confederate plantation owners and Virginia politicians Oscar and Elizabeth Crutchfield, who presumably were the original owners of the present volume. They owned a large plantation in