Jimmie Skaggs Plantation Grayson Texas

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Grayson, Texas, United States
Surnames/tags: Slavery Heritage_Exchange US_Black_Heritage_Project

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Contents 1 Jimmie Skaggs Plantation 1.1 Identified Slaves 1.2 1860 Unidentified Slaves 2 Sources

Jimmie Skaggs Plantation

Jimmie Skaggs was originally from Kentucky. In 1854, with 13 enslaved people, he moved to Kansas Territory, intending to establish slavery there. By 1859, it had become clear that Kansas would enter the Union as a free state. Skaggs then took 16 enslaved people to Texas.

In 1860, Skaggs established a farm or plantation in Grayson County, Texas, and his enslaved people worked there for six years. Some people stayed on to work "on shares" after Emancipation.

Identified Slaves

• Robert "Bob" Skaggs
• Charity Freeman Skaggs
• Felix
• George
• Rachel and her child

(Felix, George and Rachel were named by Marcus Freeman in his 1895 interview with the Kansas Historical Society.^[1]

1860 Unidentified Slaves

1. 1 UNKNOWN Male, 35 years old (This may be Robert "Bob" Skaggs.)
2. 1 UNKNOWN Male, 34 years old
3. 1 UNKNOWN Male, 33 years old
4. 1 UNKNOWN Male, 25 years old
5. 1 UNKNOWN Male, 20 years old
6. 1 UNKNOWN Male, 20 years old
7. 1 UNKNOWN Male, 9 years old
8. 1 UNKNOWN Male, 11 years old
9. 1 UNKNOWN Male, 7 years old
10. 1 UNKNOWN Male, 5 years old
11. 1 UNKNOWN Male, 3 years old
12. 1 UNKNOWN Female, 2 years old
13. 1 UNKNOWN Male, 3 months old
14. 1 UNKNOWN Female, 33 years old
15. 1 UNKNOWN Female, 24 years old (This may be Charity Freeman Skaggs, wife of Bob Skaggs. She was enslaved by William Bayne, but he allowed her to accompany her husband to Texas with Skaggs.)
16. 1 UNKNOWN Female, 21 years old

Sources

1. ↑ Kansas Historical Society Marcus Lindsay Freeman, Reminiscence of a Former Slave: https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/3450 : 12 Mar 2022

• 1860 U.S. Federal Census — Slave Schedules: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7668/images/txm653_1310-0278?pId=92326803 : 12 Mar 2022