Overview

Location

Piney Hills region, Perry Co., MS

Later Forrest Co., MS

Date Constructed/ Founded

1810

Associated Surnames

McCallum

Historical notes

McCallum is very different from the cotton plantations like Saragossa and Mount Locust in other parts of Mississippi. The area is characterized by poor soils and was not suited to large cotton plantations. Nevertheless, thousands of African Americans were enslaved in the Pine Hills. Most farms focused on raising cattle and exporting them elsewhere (such as plantation country around Natchez).The slave holdings in the Pine Hills were much smaller than those in the cotton-growing regions of Mississippi. So while little cotton was grown here, the area was famous for its cattle production. Cattle herding did not require large labor forces.

Associated Slave Workplaces

none

Associated Free Persons

• Malcolm McCallum (b.?-d.1831) - owner
• McCallum heirs - farm and slaves were divided among Malcolm McCallum's heirs when he died in 1831

Associated Enslaved Persons

• There were between 25 and 35 slaves at McCallum and they lived in 5 slave houses

Research Leads and Plantation Records

• none reported yet

Miscellaneous Information

• none

References

• African-American Archeaology at USM (online) http://ocean.otr.usm.edu/~aloung/mcallum.html

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