History 306: Women and Gender in U.S. History to 1870: Women and Plantation Society

These files contain the research materials collected by Dr. Davidson for his research in writing The Plantation World Around Davidson. The files contain a vast amount of information on local history including the areas of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, Catawba County, Iredell County, and Gaston County. Information on well-known families of the 19th century in these counties is located here. Most of the files contain newspaper clippings, photographs, and genealogy research on the families of the various plantations.

Robert Hall Morrison was the first president of Davidson College. Typescripts of his letters are available online through this finding aid, several of which describe health issues in the town of Davidson, relations with enslaved persons, politics, and plantation transactions.

The Latta and Sample families - both heavily involved during the early years of Davidson College - occupied the Latta Plantation home in Mecklenburg County. These digitized materials highlight daily activities on the property, and routinely reference an enslaved woman named "Suckey."

The digitized materials in this collection, particularly those found under Series 2, reveal details about daily life on the Rural Hill, Ingleside, and Dixon Plantations in and around Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

A listing of digitized resources found in the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Archives & Special Collections, including plantation records, civic organizations, civil rights documentation, and oral histories.