Focus Weekend- Scraping and Plowing Barrington Plantation State Historic Site
Barrington Plantation State Historic Site 12300 Park Rd, Washington, TX, United StatesFocus Weekend- Scraping and Plowing We are following the cotton cultivation methods laid out by the period account of Solomon Northup, a free man who was kidnapped from Washington D.C. in 1841, and enslaved near Holmesville, LA, which is about 280 miles from Barrington. In his book, Twelve Years a Slave (1853), Northup described using […]