The Stagville plantation is an historical site in Durham, NC. It was the home of the Bennehan/Cameron family. This house, the Bennehan house was built between 1787 and 1799. It was the home of the family until 1847 when they built a much larger, grander mansion nearby.
The Cameron family was one of the richest slaveholders in the South. By 1860 Paul Cameron owned 30,000 acres in North Carolina, Mississippi and Alabama, and enslaved 1000 people.
The historical site sheds light on the lives of the enslaved workers on the plantation.
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