Shuka na Sharswood

Sharswood Plantation, wanda aka fi sani da Sharswood Manor Estate, Gidan shuka ne na tarihi a cikin Pittsylvania County, Virginia, kimanin mil daya a kudancin yankin da ba a kafa shi ba na Mount Airy . Kafin Yaƙin basasar Amurka, Sharswood ta yi aiki a matsayin gonar taba mai girman kadada 2,000 a ƙarƙashin mallakar Charles Edwin Miller da Nathaniel Crenshaw Miller . Gidan Gothic Revival an tsara shi ne ta hanyar gine-ginen New York Alexander Jackson Davis. Ginin ya kasance a cikin iyalin Miller har zuwa 1917, lokacin da iyalin Thompson suka sayi shi. A cikin 2020, Frederick Miller ne ya sayi dukiyar, zuriyar mutanen da aka bautar a Sharswood.

 Tarihi 
Prior to the American Civil War, Sharswood operated as a 2,000-acre tobacco plantation under the ownership of two brothers, Charles Edwin Miller and Nathaniel Crenshaw Miller. The plantation was built in Virginia, located outside the town of Gretna, between Danville and Lynchburg.

An gina tsarin katako, mai yiwuwa gidan shuka na asali, kafin 1800. Bayan 1820, an raba gidan asali zuwa duplex kuma an yi amfani da shi azaman wurin zama ga bayi. A cikin shekarun 1850, an gina wani gida, wanda masanin gine-gine New York Alexander Jackson Davis ya tsara,  a cikin salon Gothic Revival don iyalin Miller. Gidan yana da rufin rufi, ɗakunan bututun wuta na polygonal, bargeboards na lacy tare da finials, crockets na fleur-de-lis, wani shinge mai hawa ɗaya tare da ginshiƙai na octagonal da tracery, da windows masu lu'u-lu'u tare da ƙirar hood. Har ila yau, gonar ta ƙunshi gine-gine goma sha biyu, da yawa daga cikinsu mazaunan bayi ne.

A cikin 1860, shekarun waɗanda suka yi bautar a Sharswood sun kasance daga shekara ɗaya zuwa shekara saba'in da biyu.[1] Dangane da ƙididdigar wannan shekarar, bayi talatin da biyar sun kasance goma sha biyu ko sama da haka kuma ashirin da uku yara ne.[1] Mutane talatin da daya da suka zama bayi a Sharswood mata ne.[1] Bayan 'yanci, mutane goma da suka kasance bayi sun sanya hannu kan kwangilar aiki tare da Nathaniel Miller don ci gaba da zama masu raba kayan aiki.[2]￼

A shekara ta 1917, dangin Thompson ne suka sayi gonar, wadanda suka mallake ta sama da ƙarni daya.

A cikin 2020, Frederick Miller, tsohon sojan saman Amurka da ya yi ritaya ya sayi dukiyar da dala 225,000. Frederick Miller, wanda Ba'amurke ne, shi ne babban jikan Violet da David Miller, wadanda dukansu suka zama bayi a Sharswood. Kakarsa, Sarah Miller, an haife ta ne a 1868 a Sharswood kuma an rubuta ta a matsayin memba na iyali a cikin Slave Birth Index .  Miller bai san alaƙar kakanninsa da Sharswood ba a lokacin da ya sayi. Miller ya kafa Gidauniyar Sharswood, kungiya mai zaman kanta wacce ke tallafawa kiyayewa da adana tarihi na gonar. A watan Yunin 2022, gonar ta dauki bakuncin babban bikin Juneteenth tare da mutane sama da 1,000 da suka halarta. An gudanar da bikin Juneteenth na biyu a ranar 18 ga Yuni, 2023. 

Sharswood ya haɗa da gidan murabba'in mita 3,200 da kuma yanki na 10.5-acre tare da ƙananan gine-gine daban-daban,  gami da ofishin mai kula da gidan da a baya ya yi aiki a matsayin kicin, wanki, da kuma Gidan bayi.  Har ila yau akwai makabartar bayi a gidan Sharswood .  

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