File:Example plantation record.jpg

Description: Sample plantation record page "Negroes I purchased of Wm. Ellison the 18th January 1836" including birth and death dates. Uploaded by: Diltsgd (FamilySearch Wiki). Date: 30 March 2010. Source: Kenneth M. (Kenneth Milton) Stampp, Records of ante-bellum Southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War : Series A, Selections from the South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina (Frederick, Maryland : University Publications of America, 1985) [FHL Film 1534211] about page 5 or 6. Permission: Public domain. This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Canada, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.