An owner of a large plantation owned 50 or more slaves and over 1,000 acres of land. An owner of a small plantation owned from 20 to 40 slaves and 100 to 1,000 acres of land.
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Women would have owned plantations during the Civil War only if no male heirs were available to take the property. Women owning plantations was rare.
Life on plantationsMany plantations used African slaves for the hard labor, such as cotton, rice, indigo or tobacco.
A civil war is between people who are part of the same country. A war, a true war, is between two or more countries.
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