Hugh Davis and His Alabama Plantation
Weymouth Jordan
The University of Alabama Press, 2004
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A promising lawyer, Hugh Davis purchased in 1847 the Cahaba River plantation of Beaver Bend, which he operated until his death in 1862. He cleared land, bought slaves, increased his cotton acreage, hired and fired overseers, tried slaves as overseers, experimented with seeds, irrigation and methods of fertilizing soil and erosion prevention.
- ISBN-13
- 9780817350659
- ISBN-10
- 0817350659
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press
- Year
- 2004
- Publication date
- 2004-03-22
- Pages
- 192
- Dimensions
- 226x164x13
- Weight
- 333