Summary: | Robert Ruffin Barrow was a sugar planter and canal operator in Terrebonne Parish, La. He owned six Terrebonne Parish plantations including Residence, Myrtle Grove, Caillou Grove, Honduras, Crescent Farm and Point Farm. This collection consists of a plantation journal kept by Residence Plantation manager, Ephraim A. Knowlton and several overseers. The journal contains slave records, details of sugar production, records of daily operations, and reports of conflicts between slaves and overseers, between Barrow and his overseers, as well as reports of fugitive slaves.
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