SANKOFA'S SLAVERY DATA COLLECTION

Hamilton Place

Location: Maury Co., TN
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Associated Surnames: Polk

Associated Plantations: Ashwood Farm (Maury Co., TN)

Associated Free White Names

• William Polk: land speculator and N.C. federal internal revenue supervisor
  • son Lucius Junius Polk: planter
    • son Will Polk: planter

Associated Black Slave Names

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Agriculture

• Cotton

Description of Associated Architecture

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Research Leads

Southern Historical Collection #606: Polk and Yeatman Family Papers: Personal and business papers of three generations of the Polk and Yeatman family of North Carolina and Tennessee.
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/p/Polk_and_Yeatman_Family

• Subseries 1.1. 1773-1833 (About 500 items) Among the topics discussed are: ...1820: treatment of runaway slaves; 1822: poisoning of family by slaves...
• Subseries 2.2. 1834-1861 (About 250 items) Chiefly bills, receipts, and other business and personal finance items relating to the sons of William Polk, mainly Lucius Junius Polk and his plantation in Maury County, Tenn...

RESOURCES

• Manuscripts Department Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (online) http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/p/Polk_and_Yeatman_Family