Talk:Berkeley Plantation

For future reference
Berkeley Plantation and Berkeley Hundred both currently state that they are two names for the same property. The following link on page 642 appears to suggest that the Berkeley Plantation was part of the Berkeley Hundred:

-Location (talk) 05:08, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

Harrison's Landing
Harrison's Landing had great significance in the American Civil War. There should be much more about this. Valetude (talk) 00:08, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

Indeed it did, and a big part of that civil war was slavery as practiced at the Berkeley Plantation. The word slave does not appear once in this article despite that during the period of historical significance many more enslaved people lived there than, say, future presidents. For instance: http://www.history.org/almanack/people/bios/biocha.cfm?showSite=mobile — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:241:8500:C336:6233:4BFF:FE1C:F8B8 (talk) 07:54, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

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The place was literally a barn
I think that we should mention the fact that the building was abandoned after the civil war and used as a barn for much of the latter half of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

more work needed
Since libraries are closed today and I don't know when I'll return to this article (much less disambiguate all the men named Benjamin Harrison), I'm noting that the Harrisons probably didn't purchase this property from the Giles Bland who was the mentioned Theodorick Bland's nephew, as he was executed during Bacon's Rebellion. But Giles Bland's activity in Virginia trying to untangle Theodoric's estate, as well as those of Theodorick Bland's widow (and her new husband St.Leger Codd) were extensively litigated on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean by his mother....Jweaver28 (talk) 23:15, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

"Harrison family hospitality"
yWhy is there no mention that thousands of people were enslaved here over the decades...? Surely this information is available somewhere. This should be made clear in the introduction. —KaliforniykaHi! 04:16, 14 June 2024 (UTC)