Cameron Tunica Plantation, Tunica County, Mississippi

Date: 1857 [unknown]
Location: Tunica, Mississippi, United States
Surnames/tags: Cameron Slavery Black_Heritage

Plantations Index

Biography

In 1857 Paul C. Cameron purchased property in Tunica Co, MS to create a cotton plantation. Purchased from Col. Sam Tate of Memphis TN, this plantation encompassed 1811 acres.^[1] In 1857 the about three dozen enslaved persons were moved from the Cameron's Alabama Plantation to Tunica MS.^[2]

Slaves

In 1857 the enslaved who moved to MS from the Alabama plantation are listed as follows: ^[3]

• Joe
• Delphia
• Barbary
• Maria
• Isaac
• Hadrack
• Joe jr
• old Jake
• Beckey
• Juba
• Jincey
• Frank
• Betsey
• Nat
• Jake
• Washington
• Doney
• Lizzy
• Harrison
• Little Jake
• Bentley of Frank
• Gustaves
• Libby
• Fenton
• Toney
• Cherry
• Eaton
• Milly
• Anderson
• Leathy
• John I.
• Charity
• Alexander
• Fanny

For more information see The Bennehan-Cameron Plantations page

Sources

1. ↑ Deed: "Deed records, 1837-1886; index to deeds, 1837-1926"
   Catalog: Deed records, 1837-1886; index to deeds, 1837-1926 Deed records, v. E 1840-1859
   Film number: 008567710 > image 45 of 342
   FamilySearch Image (accessed 22 February 2022)
   • 1857 Tunica Co, MS Deed Bk E p.70
2. ↑ A Mind To Stay https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Mind_to_Stay/old7DgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Nathans, Sydney. A Mind to Stay: White Plantation, Black Homeland. United States: Harvard University Press, 2017.
   • p.65, 67
3. ↑ Cameron Family Papers https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00133/#folder_2040b#1, image 4, Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.