US Black Heritage Index of Plantations
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Surnames/tags: black_heritage slavery plantations
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Gina Jarvi 
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This page is managed by the Heritage Exchange Slavery Projects Team for the purpose of tracking all space pages created for plantations that held 40 or more slaves during its history. Slaves listed should be named and located on the plantation.
Plantations Team Leader: Michelle Detwiler
How to Create a Plantation Page
- Please create your plantation space pages with the plantation name and the location in the title. Example: Bellevue Plantation, Essex County, Virginia.
- Please request a category from team members Michelle Detwiler or Gina Jarvi. A category will then be created that will go on the profiles for any person associated with that plantation (ie: slave owners, slaves, overseers, etc).
- If the categories have not yet been created, please place the plantation below the Needs Categorization section for each state. The plantation category should be created before the profiles on that plantation.
How to Create Profiles for the Enslaved on Plantations
- When creating profiles for the enslaved please make sure the Plantation Name Category is listed on each profile in the Category area.
- If you have more than one person on a plantation with the same name, ie Betty, Betty, Little Betty, etc. please initiate a "Rejected Merge" when creating those profiles so they are not accidently merged.
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Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Mississippi
Missouri
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Collaboration
- Login to request to the join the Trusted List so that you can edit and add images.
- Private Messages: Contact the Profile Managers privately: Gina Jarvi, Michelle Detwiler, and US Black Heritage Project WikiTree. (Best when privacy is an issue.)
- Public Comments: Login to post. (Best for messages specifically directed to those editing this profile. Limit 20 per day.)
- Public Q&A: These will appear above and in the Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum. (Best for anything directed to the wider genealogy community.)
The current advice here is to create free-space profiles with commas in the Title field.
These commas make it difficult to add images to the profile: see for example this G2G comment. They may also make it hard to use the Space: ID in the WTID field of a new G2G question.
A different approach you might consider would avoid these issues. Instruct people to use a simple Title with all punctuation removed. Then, after creating the profile, they should edit it and set the Page Name field to the style which is recommended at present, including the commas. This field determines the page heading, so the new page will still have the appearance you want.
I hope you will welcome this suggestion as a way to make life easier for the creators of plantation pages.
Kind regards—Jim Richardson
edited by Jim Richardson
edited by Gina (Pocock) Jarvi