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Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter

Portrait of a cotton planter

by Theodore Rosengarten

750 pages · 1986

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Tombee was an unlucky slave owner and cotton planter on St. Helena Island, South Carolina. His real name was Thomas B. Chaplin, and we know him because of his plantation journal, kept between 1845 and 1858.

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