My son Nat drove me to the Belle Meade Plantation in Nashville when I visited him for his graduation from Vanderbilt Univ. Belle Meade was a equestrian farm, and very recently was a working farm. There are some good displays about the slaves who worked there - I imagine this was a very paternalistic plantation, where slaves were "family." Troublesome slaves (like those wanting their freedom!) were simply sold, not whipped. But you can imagine who would buy a would be run away slave - those truly hideous plantations down in mississippi and louisiana, where thousands of slaves would work in the fields. There was even a geneology display for the slaves and their decendents.
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