Hugh Davis and His Alabama Plantation
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0817350659
ISBN-13
9780817350659
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
Imprint
The University of Alabama Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 22nd, 2004
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
333 grams
Ksh 4,300.00
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A promising lawyer, Hugh Davis purchased in 1847 the Cahaba River plantation of Beaver Bend, which he operated until his death in 1862. He cleared land, bought slaves, increased his cotton acreage, hired and fired overseers, tried slaves as overseers, experimented with seeds, irrigation and methods of fertilizing soil and erosion prevention.
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