Frogmore Plantation

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We cross the Mississippi River to Lousiana The Frogmore Plantation store Mule-driven sugar cane mill Cotton growing in the Frogmore fields Our guide shows how to separate the cotton from the boll without cutting fingers Raw cotton containing cotton seeds Picture of 1800s gin yard An Eli Whitney cotton gin An 1884 steam powered cotton gin Seed cotton house Processed cotton was loaded into horse drawn carts Original belt drives attached to the steam engine Overseers dogtrot cabin Our guide demonstrates a harvest bag next to mannequin dressed for picking Old bath tub Sleep tight (i.e. tight rope under mattress) Old photos of cotton harvest Freshly picked cotton Old slave and sharecropper quarters Children ate with their hands from this bowl Old bed with mattress stuffed with corn cobs or cotton Cupboard with newspaper for wallpaper Fireplace and cast iron stove Hog scraper Hog Killing Time on the Plantation step-by-step Narratives from actual slaves from several states A very fast modern cotton gin Bales of cotton waiting to be ginned Back across the Mississippi