Westfall Plantation is a duality of wealth and poverty.
Photos courtesy of the Library of Congress.
...a tapestry of vivid richness, density, and formidable design.
—Steven Bauer, Hollow Tree Literary Services
The quarters are drafty, one-room cabins with doors that wouldn't stay shut. The slaves are rowdy and exuberant. Their obedience to their master is anything but benign.
Plantation owner Tilmon struggles to control his family and slaves. However the sound of cannons is in the air, and Fort Sumter is just months away.
WESTFALL, Slave to King Cotton
In spite of the conflicts between master and slave, all the inhabitants of Westfall are “slave to King Cotton," the crop that brings white wealth and black poverty.
Copyright Bonnie Stanard
The whites live in the Big House.
Bonnie R. Stanard
Writer
The blacks live in slave quarters.
Photos courtesy of the Library of Congress.