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Since the 1970s, Richard S. Dunn has been tracking the 1,103 slaves who lived at Mesopotamia between 1762 and 1833, and the 973 slaves who lived at Mount Airy between 1808 and 1865. And he has reconstructed the lineages of slave families from both plantations through four or five generations.

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In Jamaica, many more slaves died than were born, and the planters imported huge numbers of new slaves from Africa to replace the dead workers. In Virginia, the slave population doubled every twenty-five years, and the planters sold huge numbers of "surplus" slaves, or moved them to distant work sites.

Because of these demographic conditions, the black families in Mesopotamia and Mount Airy suffered terribly, but in far different ways.

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On this Jamaican plantation, there were 331 more slave deaths than births between 1762 and 1833. To keep sugar production going, the owners (Joseph Foster Barham I and his son Joseph Foster Barham II) acquired 415 replacements.

The three Mesopotamia families displayed on this website were continually stunted by death.

What was the situation like at Mount Airy?

On this Virginia plantation, there were 293 more slave births than deaths between 1809 and 1865. The owners (John Tayloe III and his son William Henry Tayloe) utilized this population increase to move 329 people to distant work sites, and to sell 99 unwanted slaves.

The four Mount Airy families displayed on this website were routinely broken up by movement and sale.

But these Mount Airy families were impressively resilient under duress, and some of them became very large. Richard Dunn's hand-drawn chart of the 114 members of Sally Thurston's family is more than five feet long. See it below.