SANKOFA'S SLAVERY DATA COLLECTION

Edenatta Plantation

Location: Essex Co., VA
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Associated surnames: Waring

Associated Free White Names

• Robert P. Waring: owner; also owner of Glencairn, Thomas Neck, Greenfield, and Port Micon

Associated Black Slave Names

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Agriculture

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Description of Associated Architecture

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Research Leads

• Richard Baylor Family Papers (ca. 100 items), 1662-1867, microfilm (M-2272) http://www.upress.virginia.edu/plunkett/PluAfro16.html Personal, business, and legal papers of this Essex County family. The 1810-15 medical accounts of William Waring to Alexander Somervail record the treatment of slaves. An 1844-49 journal of Robert P. Waring has very good year-by-year evaluations slaves at a number of his plantations, including Edenatta, Glencairn, Thomas Neck, Greenfield, and Port Micon. (Acc. 6056)

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