Reinventing Profit Belle Meade Plantation began as a successful thoroughbred horse farms in the country in 1807. The plantation is located in Nashville ,Tennessee and even after the Civil War continued to prosper in the thoroughbred horse breeding business. Today, the plantation, due to its historical significance, is a non-profit museum that focuses on the experience of being in the nineteenth century. Faced with financial concerns, the Kelleys, Alton and Sheree had to come up with a business plan in order to secure funding in the long term to keep the museum running. Donations were increasingly lower each year and the couple had to find answers to their financial dilemma. Their unique approach was to incorporate social entrepreneurship in the shape of a nonprofit winery. Although the non profit winery is doing well, the …show more content…
The Kelley’s being the directors of the plantation were not familiar with the winemaking process. Also, “there were no other known nonprofit wineries in the United States” (Ferrell et al 591). Not having any examples to build with, the project could have had severe negative financial impact on the plantation. Also, going into an unknown business strategy could have backfired with the stakeholders of the nonprofit. Banking on an uncharted business could affect jobs, income, and also mean the plantation would be closed. Luckily, the plantation did have a history of winemaking and this worked to integrate the history of the location along with the new funding making plan, as the curator noted, “there are numerous invoices from the 1800s that show the Hardings purchased and served fine wines” (Ferrell et al 593). Additionally, the museum was already known for excellent customer service, providing a tourist need, and also the keeping the historical nature of the location alive. Already having this vision in place assists in strengthening the proposed
George the Second, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, King, Defender of the Faith, I write to thee from the heart of South Carolina, Charleston to impart my knowledge of the region. My travels have been long and arduous. I arrived by way of a freight ship bearing finished goods for the colony on the twenty-eighth day of March, in the twenty-third year of thy reign. All that province, territory, or tract of ground, called South Carolina, lying and being within our dominions of America is well.
The Plantation Mistresses introduced by Catherine Clinton present in vivid detail the story of real lives and activities as a wife, household executive of white women’s during the nineteenth-century. This historian book illustrates clearly that while the “Southern belle” may have prevail momentarily, it was the “Steel magnolia” who reigned. This paper will review, evaluate and provide a critical analysis of Clinton’s story as well as her main arguments. By focusing on any areas of weakness within the story.
1. The insight that each of these sources offers into slave life in the antebellum South is how slaves lived, worked, and were treated by their masters. The narratives talk about their nature of work, culture, and family in their passages. For example, in Solomon Northup 's passage he describes how he worked in the cotton field. Northup said that "An ordinary day 's work is considered two hundred pounds. A slave who is accustomed to picking, is punished, if he or she brings less quantity than that," (214). Northup explains how much cotton slaves had to bring from the cotton field and if a slave brought less or more weight than their previous weight ins then the slave is whipped because they were either slacking or have no been working to their
Most of early American colonies struggled to make a significant profit. It was not until John Rolfe perfected his recipe for tobacco in 1612 colonies began to seriously grow a single crop. It was then that Virginia became a plantation colony. It revolutionized colonies leading to the importation of slaves. This tobacco revolution lead to numerous advertisement campaigns. The advertisement presented is modification of what actually happened; the historical evidence in the chapter presents a different story. For instance, African American lives were influenced by tobacco, the idea of life being “a smoke,” and the increase of wealth of white people are shown in the image but are partially true.
Antebellum South Carolina was a period considered to be between 1790 and the American civil war in 1861. In 1786 the cotton gin was created causing the cotton industry to increase its labor demand due to the increased harvest size on the plantations. Not only was the cotton industry in high demand but also so was rice harvesting causing South Carolina to become a heavily slave populated state. Image A and B both represent two periods of slavery during the antebellum South Carolina. Image A shows an advertisement for a slave sale in Charles Town South Carolina on the Ashley Ferry river, while image B shows an illustration of elderly domestic house servants looking after both white and black children. Image A was taken before the start of the antebellum period in 1760 unlike image B that was sketched towards the end of this period in South Carolina in 1863. The two images represent the change that occurred through the state of South Carolina in regards to slavery.
During the American Revolution and the civil war, the North and the South experienced development of different socio-political and cultural environmental conditions. The North became an industrial and manufacturing powerhouse as a result of rise of movements like abolitionism and women’s right while the South became a cotton kingdom whose labor was sourced from slavery (Spark notes, 2011).
Morgan sees the society that developed in Virginia as a far cry from what those who first encouraged ...
I believe that colonists should immigrate to the Southern Colonies. We, the Southern colonies, have a good economy, government, plentiful natural resources, nice climates, and a lot of agricultural land to farm on. We have plenty of supplies and land so you, the immigrating should move to the Southern Colonies.
The lives of men and women, women more than men, have changed a lot of the past couple years even decades and more than that. The interconnection of race and gender in the evolving social hierarchy of the early South, Colonial North Carolina, has changed. In Colonial North Carolina the main difference was on how the ways of “ordinary people” interacted with different genders and how race was different between the people of North Carolina. Peoples’ beliefs were the main thing that changed these views, but sometimes it reflected on political beliefs also. Between men and women sex was seen differently. Men and women’s views on sex were far from similar and this has affected their views on race and their views on each other. Views on sex has been
One form of punishment, a master would use often would be to threaten to sale a slave to get them submissive. When he could not break them or to make an example for the other slaves, he would sale them. Enslaved people knew if the master died as well as if the master was under financial stress, they could be sold. Profit was another reason slaves were auctioned. $1000 to $2000 could be attained for a health male slave before the start of the Civil War. Female slaves that were health usually went for a couple hundred dollars less than the male slaves did.
Life on Bone's plantation initially is good. An educated black man is the schoolteacher and teaches kids in the day and adults at night. Each night, a different family feeds him. When it is Jane's turn, she sends Ned out to find a plate and fork for the teacher but 3 later discovers that every family borrowed the same plate and fork each night because it was the only one. Ned learns how to read, although Jane never attends the school herself.Mr. Bone is a Republican, and the anti-slavery Republican stance allows for some black leaders to emerge in helping to reorganize the south. One day during a public political rally, a large fight breaks out, and Jane hides with Ned under the stage. Later, she finds out that the secret white societies, the Ku Klux Klan, the White Brotherhood, and the Camellias of Luzana, caused the trouble.
Slavery was the main resource used in the Chesapeake tobacco plantations. The conditions in the Chesapeake region were difficult, which lead to malnutrition, disease, and even death. Slaves were a cheap and an abundant resource, which could be easily replaced at any time. The Chesapeake region’s tobacco industries grew and flourished on the intolerable and inhumane acts of slavery.
A graduate from Yale University had thoughts of becoming a lawyer, but he needed a job urgently. After a tutoring job fell through, he accepted a position on a plantation in Georgia. His employer, Catherine Green, saw much talent in him and encouraged him to find a way to make cotton profitable. He promptly began working on a solution to the problem of separating the seeds from the cotton. On March 14, 1794, Eli Whitney was granted a patent for the cotton gin.1 The cotton gin impacted American industry and slavery changing the course of American history.
The issue of Slavery in the South was an unresolved issue in the United States during the seventeenth and eighteenth century. During these years, the south kept having slavery, even though most states had slavery abolished. Due to the fact that slaves were treated as inferior, they did not have the same rights and their chances of becoming an educated person were almost impossible. However, some information about slavery, from the slaves’ point of view, has been saved. In this essay, we are comparing two different books that show us what being a slave actually was. This will be seen with the help of two different characters: Linda Brent in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Frederick Douglass in The Narrative of the life of Frederick
In the late 1700’s the slave population in the United States had decreased. Before the invention of the cotton gin the South, which could only make money by farming, was loosing money because it didn’t have a major crop to export to England and the North besides tobacco and rice. However, these crops could be grown elsewhere. Cotton was the key because it couldn’t be grown in large amounts in other places, but only one type of cotton that could be cleaned easily. This was long-staple cotton. Another problem arose; long-staple cotton only could be grown along the coast. There was another strain of cotton that until then could not be cleaned easily so it wasn’t worth growing. The cotton gin was the solution to this problem. With the invention of the cotton gin short stemmed cotton could be cleaned easily making cotton a valued export and it could be grown anywhere in the south. The era of the “Cotton Kingdom” began with this invention leading into an explosion in the necessity of slaves.