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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Kelvin Grove Plantation Book, #2771, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Location of Originals

Original in private hands in 1953.

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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Conscious Editing Work by: Nancy Kaiser, July 2020. Updated abstract, subject headings, biographical note, and scope and content note.

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Agriculture--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Corn--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Cotton growing--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Enslaved persons--Georgia--Registers.
• Georgia--Economic conditions.
• Kelvin Grove Plantation (St. Simons Island, Ga.)
• Plantations--Georgia--Saint Simons Island.
• Postell, James P., Active 1853-1854.
• Potatoes--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Saint Simons Island (Ga.)--Economic conditions.
• Sea Islands--History--19th century.
• Slave records--Georgia.
• Slavery--United States--History--19th century--Sources.

Enslaved people lived at and provided the labor for Kelvin Grove Plantation on St. Simon's Island, Ga., beginning in 1798.

In 1853, James P. Postell (b. circa 1833) married Anne Armstrong Cater, whose family owned Kelvin Grove.

Biographical information was derived in part from GlynnGen.com Coastal Georgia Genealogy and History.

Microfilm only. Plantation book kept by James P. Postell, a white farmer, documents the enslaved people and their labor in growing cotton, corn, and potatoes at Kelvin Grove Plantation, St. Simons Island, Ga. The plantation book includes lists of enslaved people, as well as stock, diagrams of the plantation, and notations, 1853-1854, of daily agricultural work.