FRELLSEN (HENRY) PLANTATION DIARY
Mss. 3497
Inventory
Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections
Special Collections, Hill Memorial Library
Louisiana State University Libraries
Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University
Reformatted 2003
Revised 2011
CONTENTS OF INVENTORY
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SUMMARY
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1 volume (101 pages) |
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St. Charles Parish, Louisiana |
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Inclusive dates. |
1878-1884 |
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English |
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Diary of Henry Frellsen, immigrant to Louisiana from Denmark and plantation owner. Diary records crop and weather information, plantation maintenance, and farmhand salaries. |
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If microfilm is available, photocopies must be made from microfilm. |
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Copyright. |
Copyright of the original materials is retained by descendants of the creators in accordance with U.S. copyright law. |
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Citation. |
Henry Frellsen Plantation Diary, Mss. 3497, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, La. |
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G:17 |
BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL NOTE
Henry Frellsen (ca. 1800-1884), born in Copenhagen, Denmark, traveled extensively in his youth and fought in the Greek War of Independence, 1824. He returned to Copenhagen, married Caroline Friederike Gorrissen (d. 1838) in 1829, and arrived in Louisiana in 1836. By 1840, he had moved to North Louisiana and marred Jane Larche of Ouachita Parish in 1839.
Frellsen was the Danish Consul in New Orleans, he worked as a cotton factor in New Orleans, and he owned the Fairview Plantation in Saint Charles Parish.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The diary entries document Frellsen's operation of the Fairview Plantation. Weekly reports detail crop and weather conditions, record maintenance of a sugarhouse, machinery, and levees, and list farmhands (including children) employed and their wages. The diary reflects sugar cultivation and beginning in 1883, rice cultivation on the plantation.
CROSS REFERENCES
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Description of relevant documents |
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Child labor--Louisiana. |
1878-1884 |
Mention of children employed in rice fields |
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Fairview Plantation (La.) |
1878-1884 |
Plantation diary kept weekly by Henry Frellsen, owner of Fairvew Plantation, during the years preceding his death: weekly entries, recording cultivation of sugar, corn, rattoons, rice; hauling wood; upkeep of farm machinery and buildings; employment of labor; weather, and Mississippi River water levels. |
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Plantation workers--Louisiana.
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1878-1884 |
Some figures on number of farmhands employed on Fairview Plantation, wages paid to them, and to overseers. |
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Rice--Planting--Louisiana. |
1883-1884 |
Beginning in 1883, frequent mention of rice cultivation on Fairvew Plantation; some statistics, e. g. “290 acres of rice” in April, 1884. |
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Sugar growing--Louisiana.
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1878-1884 |
Frequent entries on sugarcane grown, harvested, and refined at Fairview Plantation |
CONTAINER LIST
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1 volume: Henry Frellsen Plantation Diary (1878-1884) |
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