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[Identification of item], in the Thomas Steele Diary #693-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Kate Shepherd Bennett of Wadesboro, North Carolina, in 1930.

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• Agriculture--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Chesterfield County (S.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Corn--South Carolina.
• Cotton growing--South Carolina.
• Diaries (Blank-books)
• Education--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Oats--South Carolina.
• Plantation life--South Carolina.
• Plantations--South Carolina.
• Slavery--South Carolina.
• Slaves--Medical care.
• Steele, Thomas, fl. 1854-1856.
• Wheat--South Carolina.
• Woodlands (S.C.)--Social life and customs.

Thomas Steele, planter at Woodland, near Cheraw, Chesterfield County, S.C.

Plantation diary, 1854-1856, of Thomas Steele, 153 pages. Almost daily entries recount planting, cultivating, and harvesting cotton, corn, wheat, oats, and other crops; activities and health of slaves; activities of overseers; farm animals, including mules, hogs, and dogs; construction projects; financial transactions; neighbors; cures; weather; and Steele's health. Steele apparently had two children, Willie and Eugene, whom he occasionally mentions sending to school.

• P-693/1