Pro
Se Plaintiff Slave Negro Louis Charles Hamilton II USN # 2712, “Plaintiffs Slaves et al” Further appearances
Affirm, State and fully declare all allegation, contention, disputes,
disputation, argument, conflict and disharmony, fully furtherance’s cause of
action as follows:
20.
Third Party" USA life created a society with clear class divisions. A lucky few were at the top, with land holdings as far as the eyes could see, with hundreds of servants and slaves at their beck and call,
“Chief Defendant(s)” being “Negro Slave Trade Corporations et al”,
Col. Joshua John Ward of Georgetown, South Carolina: 1,130
Known as “King of the Rice Planters,” Ward had 1,130 enslaved “Plaintiffs” Blacks on the Brookgreen plantation in South Carolina. In 1850, Ward controlled six large plantations and produced 3.9 million pounds of rice
“Chief Defendant(s)” being “Negro Slave Trade Corporations et al”, Dr. Stephen Duncan of Issaquena, Mississippi: 858
Duncan was a businessman who collectively enslaved more than 2,000 Blacks during his time as one of the best cotton producers.
The most he enslaved “Plaintiffs” at one time was 858 in Issaquena. Duncan owned more than 15 plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana.
“Chief Defendant(s)” being “Negro Slave Trade Corporations et al”,
John Burneside of Ascension, Louisiana: 753
Burneside was the largest sugar producer in the country during his time at the Houmas Plantation. Before he died, he owned 10 different plantations.
Meredith Calhoun of Rapides, Louisiana: 709
Plantations belonging to Calhoun surrounded the riverboat landing that would one day become the town of Colfax.
At the peak of production, the Calhoun plantations held more than 700 “Plaintiffs” Blacks in slavery and produced more cotton than any other property in Louisiana.
The Calhouns established one of the largest sugar mills in Louisiana, and the estate was valued in excess of $1 million in the 1860 census, a considerable holding at that time
“Chief Defendant(s)” being “Negro Slave Trade Corporations et al”, Aiken was one of the state’s wealthiest citizens, owner of the largest rice plantation in the state — Jehossee Island — with over 700 enslaved “Plaintiffs” Blacks on 1,500 acres under cultivation, almost twice the acreage of the next largest plantation.
By 1860, Aiken owned the entire Jehossee Island, and the plantation produced 1.5 million pounds of rice in addition to sweet potatoes and corn — in the middle of the 19th century, rice was king in South Carolina — of the 10 largest cash crops in 1850, seven were rice, two cotton and one sugar.
After the Civil War,
the plantation regained its preeminence, producing 1.2 million pounds of rice.
Today, descendants of the Aiken family, the Maybanks, still own part of the island, having sold the remainder in 1992 to the U.S. as part of the ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge.
“Chief Defendant(s)” being “Negro Slave Trade Corporations et al”, Gov. John L. Manning of Ascension, Louisiana: 670
Manning owned at least two plantations holding 670 “Plaintiffs” Blacks against their will. One in South Carolina and another in Louisiana. He was a major supporter of succeeding from the Union.
“Chief Defendant(s)” being “Negro Slave Trade Corporations et al”, The wealthiest woman in the US in the 19th century! Known locally as Adelica Acklen (in spite of her many husbands)
In brief: She went down to Louisana just after the Civil War started to protect her cotton from the late Isaac's 6,000 acres.
First she had to talk the Confederates out of burning it, then she had to talk the Yankees into letting her ship it to New Orleans. That she succeeded is testament to her spirit and intelligence.
There she found the cotton market had collapsed, so she shipped it to England where it sold for then $900,000 dollars. Until she could leave the US, the gold was on deposit as a letter of credit with Rothschild,
She just kept on marrying wealthy men and getting them to sign pre-nups, Adelicia Hayes Franklin Acklen Cheatham was born on March 15, 1817, in Nashville, Tennessee.
In 1839, at age 22, she married Isaac Franklin, a slave trader and plantation owner.[1] In 1846, after his death, she inherited the Fairvue Plantation in Gallatin, Tennessee, 8,700 acres (35 km2) of cotton plantations in Louisiana, more than 50,000 acres (200 km2) of undeveloped land in Texas, stocks and bonds, and 750 “Plaintiffs” slaves.
In 1849, she remarried to Joseph Alexander Smith Acklen.[1][4] Together, they built the Belmont Mansion in Nashville.
In 1887, before she died, she sold the house, which was later used for Ward–Belmont College, followed by Belmont University.
Adelicia Acklen, "the mistress of Belmont," was one of the wealthiest and most interesting women of the antebellum south. She was the daughter of Oliver Bliss Hayes, a prominent Nashville lawyer, judge, Presbyterian minister, land speculator,
and cousin to President Rutherford B. Hayes. Born in Nashville, TN in 1817, she was engaged at age 17 to Alphonse Gibbs when he precipitously died. Five years later in 1839 she married a 50-year old wealthy cotton planter and slave-trader, Isaac Franklin.
They were married for seven years with four children (all died in childhood) when Isaac died of a stomach virus while tending to his plantations in Louisiana; the widow Adelicia Acklen was left with an inheritance of $1 million that included seven Louisiana cotton plantations, the two-thousand-acre Fairvue Plantation in Gallatin, Tennessee, more than 50,000 acres of undeveloped land in Texas, stocks and bonds, and 750 “Plaintiffs” slaves.
Adelicia married her second husband, Colonel Joseph A. S. Acklen, in 1849. Joseph, a handsome attorney from Huntsville, Alabama, didn't quite sweep Adelicia off her feet; two days before they were to be married,
Adelicia presented Joseph with a prenuptial agreement specifying that she would be sole owner and final authority over all the properties she brought into the marriage.
The couple began immediate construction of Belmont (completed in 1853), a twenty-thousand-square-foot summer villa, with 36 rooms, including an art gallery, conservatories, lavish gardens, aviary, lake and zoo.
The Acklen's with their four surviving children (two died in childhood) lived a sumptuous lifestyle, traveling between Belmont in the summer and their Louisiana plantations in the winter.
The Acklen's entertained such notables as President Andrew Johnson, inventor Alexander Graham Bell, socialite Octavia La Vert, philosopher Thomas Huxley, and soldier of fortune William Walker, as well as numerous Confederate officers and political figures.
Joseph was a superb businessman and plantation manager, who gave up his law practice to manage the family businesses, to triple his wife's fortune by 1860.
The Belmont Mansion in Nashville,TN, built in 1850 by Joseph & Adelicia Acklen (she inherited 7 plantations and 659 “Plaintiffs” slaves in LA from her first husband, slave-trader and planter Isaac Franklin) Joseph died in 1863 at the Angola plantation in Louisiana, age 47, a carriage accident during the Civil War, and shortly thereafter
Adelicia journeyed to Louisiana in an attempt to save the nearly 3,000 bales of cotton stranded on the Acklen plantations. She faced financial ruin when the Confederate army threatened to burn her cotton to keep it from falling into Union possession.
She hired a gunboat to take her down the Mississippi River, and first negotiated with the Confederate's not to go on a raid to burn the cotton. Next she charmed the Union to release the cotton to her and to take it by wagon to New Orleans. In New Orleans, the bottom fell out of the cotton market price. Discovering that cotton was in high demand in England,
she managed to get her cotton on a ship to Liverpool where it was sold to the Rothchilds of London for a reported $960,000 in gold.
In 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered and the Civil War was over. Three weeks during the summer of 1865, Adelicia and her children sailed for England to retrieve the money made from this cotton sale, after which she took her family on a European Vacation.
They went to France and was presented to the court of Napoleon III. In February 1866, she was in Italy where she bought some statues for Belmont Mansion. Sometime later during 1866 came back home. In 1867 the fifty-year-old Adelicia Acklen married Dr. William Archer Cheatham, a respected Nashville physician.
Cheatham also signed a prenuptial agreement. The wedding was held at the Belmont mansion and 2,000 people were invited.
Napoleon III was on the guest list but couldn't come. Instead he sent Adelicia a gift, a diamond tiara which she wore to the reception.
The couple was married for 17 years before the separated for unknown reasons. In early in 1887 Adelicia sold Belmont (now part of Belmont College) and left Nashville.
Adelicia relocated to Washington, DC. with her daughter Pauline, her last surviving daughter. She died from pneumonia in New York City on May 4, 1887, while on a buying trip from her new home in Washington, DC, survived by one daughter, and three sons; her son Joseph was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana (and a proponent of women's suffrage).
Her son, Joseph H. Acklen, was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana.
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