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10 | Introduction | |||||
11 | The Plantation Stories Project is an effort to research, compile, record, and share information about all enslaved, indentured, free, and freedom-seeking Black people connected to land over which the Dickinson family claimed ownership. The Project endeavors to give voice to the experiences of Black people who lived, worked, and died on Dickinson family properties during the 18th and 19th centuries. By compulsion or choice, many of the Black men, women, and children whose stories are recorded and shared through this project made their homes and formed community ties on land along the St. Jones River. This Project works to reveal the humanity and agency of historically oppressed people as well as how they interacted with and impacted the landscapes around them. They are people whose stories have been marginalized and largely lost to time. This dataset is dedicated to sharing their stories. This compilation of names and information is a work in progress. The Plantation Stories Project team will compile additional sources, continue research, and update this page on an ongoing basis. This is intended to be an accessible listing of names and narratives that record and publicize the lives of Black people associated with the site of the John Dickinson Plantation. Ultimately, the final product of the Plantation Stories Project will be a standalone webpage that is searchable, which will also be updated as research continues to shed light on more people and their stories. The historical documents that inform this Project show a moment in time, a single instant in an individual's life. There are people whose names only appear once. There are others who might be documented many times, listed in documents throughout their life, as a child and an adult, or as enslaved and then free. The Project team is dedicated to a methodical research approach, to ensure that all documents are interpreted as accurately as possible. Every named individual has their own line in the “Name Index” and listing of sources in the “Records” section. Throughout the research process, the Project research team has found multiple people with the same name and multiple people with varying nicknames. When those instances occur, the team has worked to determine precisely which person is mentioned. Further research may show that there are even more people with the same name or that two different names are really the same person. The latter is especially possible in the case of nicknames. If you have any information about any of the people listed on this document or anyone who is not currently listed on this document, please contact us to share it. | Quick Links | ||||
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13 | 🧑🏿🦱 | Name Index | ||||
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23 | Contact | |||||
24 | Annie Fenimore, Lead Researcher and Project Coordinator; Lead Interpreter, John Dickinson Plantation | |||||
25 | Gloria Henry, Project Contributor; Site Supervisor, John Dickinson Plantation | |||||
26 | JDPmuseum@delaware.gov | |||||
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