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It's hard to summon pity for Confederate veterans when the same family that owned this huge chunk of land in 1840 still owned it as late in 1928. DT Columbia in the top. 1/?
These are the Taylor's that enslaved those in the Harvard photographs. Renty, Delia. You've seen them before, but I'll just share the article https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/us/slave-photographs-harvard.html
Millwood and Woodlands Plantations were owned by the Hampton and Preston families. Wade Hampton I was one of the wealthiest slaveowners in the county (not SC, the country). These two plantations were mere miles away from downtown Columbia (they're now Target off Garner's Ferry)
They also owned huge properties in Mississippi and Louisiana, notably Houmas, which is still standing. Anyway you can visit their grand town home through @HistColumbia, where Mary Hampton spent her life b/c she apparently didn't feel like making the very short ride to Millwood
Highly recommend the Hampton-Preston House tour, it discusses urban slavery and does not defend the enslavers. Anyway, here's the map of their property holdings in 1928 (note Hampton III was their beloved racist violent crooked governor in 1876). City blocks for scale.
If I think about the failure to redistribute land during Reconstruction I have a bit of a mental breakdown so I won't dwell, anyway boo hoo you lost the war and your free labor and now you're not the biggest cotton producer! Your family owns this much property in the CAPITAL CITY
This thread is over, Richland Library and UofSC Digital Collections have a plethora of AMAZING maps free to access without a login, I absolutely should've been a geographer, pls send me your copy of the 1956 Columbia Sanborn Map
