SANKOFA'S SLAVERY DATA COLLECTION

Aventine Plantation

Location: Natchez, Adams Co., MS
Constructed: ----

Associated Surnames: Davenport, Shields

Associated Plantations: Fish Pond Plantation (Adams Co., MS)

Associated Free White Names

• Gabriel Shields: owner

Associated Black and Native American Slave Names

Slaves of Aventine Plantation
From Voices From Slavery: Charles Davenport interview, edited by Norman R. Yetman

• William Davenport: left Aventine Plantation with Union soldiers during the Civil War
  • wife Lucindy Davenport: died shortly after son Charle's birth; father was a Choctaw
• son Charles Davenport: born at Aventine; later worked at Fish Pond Plantation (Adams Co., MS)
• "Granny": cared for all the Black children on the plantation

Agriculture

• Montebella: mansion home of Gabriel Shields; at the end of Shields Lane

Other People Researching This Plantation

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RESOURCES

• Voices From Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives. Edited by Yetman, Norman R. pp 71 - 76.