I had a rare opportunity to visit several private former rice plantations in the South. The beautiful and massive old Live Oak trees, draped with swinging Spanish moss that graced every peaceful plantation had born witness to unspeakable horror in the past. Slave cabins still stood and a haunting, frightening aura permeated the land.
I felt it deeply throughout the time I spent there.
This body of work was photographed and developed on site with the 1850’s wet plate collodion process and an 8” x 10” Kodak Masterview camera.
Donatvius Williams, Historian, Magnolia Plantation, SC, Tintype 8″ x 10″
Exchange Plantation, SC, Tintype 8″ x 10″
Hampton Plantation, South Carolina, Tintype, 4″ x 5″
Henrietta Plantation, SC, Tintype 8″ x 10″
Irrigation Canals, Arundel Plantation, SC, Tintype 8″ x 10″
Plantation Gates, Mansfield Plantation, SC, Tintype 4″ x 5″
Slave Cabin II, Mansfield Plantation, SC, Tintype 8″ x 10″
Slave Cabin III, Mansfield Plantation, SC, Tintype 8″ x 10″
Slave Cabin, Mansfield Plantation, SC, Tintype 8″ x 10″
Slave Cabin, Bellefield Plantation, SC, Tintype 8″ x 10″
Slave Cemetery, Drayton Hall, SC, Tintype 8″ x 10″
Bellefield Plantation, SC, Tintype 8″ x 10″
Slave Row, Magnolia Plantation, SC, Tintype 8″ x 10″
Slave Row, Mansfield Plantation, SC, Tintype 8″ x 10″
Slave Row, McLeod Plantation, SC, Tintype 8″ x 10″
Sara Daise, Gullah Historian, SC, Tintype 8″ x 10″
Slave Dug Canal, Hobcaw Barony, SC, Tintype 8″ x 10″
Strangler Vine, Magnolia Plantation, SC, Tintype 8″ x 10″
Old Sheldon Church, Baeufort, SC, Tintype 8″ x 10″
Witness, Arundel Plantation, SC, Tintype 8″ x 10″
