On The Old Plantation: Reminiscences of A Childhood

John George Clinkscales In the Piedmont section of my State, now, since the decline of the rice industry, the most prosperous, there were few large plantations, and comparatively few slaves. The attachment between master and slave was, in some cases, very strong and very beautiful. My father’s plantation, ＂Broadway,＂ lay between Johnson’s Creek and Little River on the one side, and Penny’s Creek on the other, and in Abbeville District, now Abbeville County, the home of Secession. In the entire tract there were only twelve hundred acres, and on it only one hundred and ten slaves. Their owner knew them all by name.