Where is gees bend

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He brought 18 enslaved blacks with him and established a cotton plantation. When he died, he left 47 slaves and his estate to two of his nephews, Sterling and Charles Gee. In , the Gee brothers sold the plantation to a relative, Mark H.

Pettway, and the Pettway family name remains prominent in Wilcox County. After emancipation, freed blacks who stayed on at the plantation worked as sharecroppers and tenant farmers.

The Pettway family held the land until , when they sold it to Adrian Sebastian Van de Graaff, an attorney from Tuscaloosa who operated the plantation as an absentee landowner. A local merchant who had extended credit to the residents of the town died, and his family demanded immediate payment of all debts owed to him. Families watched as all their food, animals, tools, and seed were taken from them. Members of the community might have perished but for rations distributed by the Red Cross and a decision by the Van de Graaff family to waive rents.

The government built houses, subdivided the property, and sold tracts of land to the local families, for the first time giving the African American population control of the land they worked. Gee's Bend Quilters In the later years of the Great Depression , the advent of widespread use of mechanization in agriculture brought additional hardships to small farmers and caused the first major exodus from Gee's Bend.

Many residents, however, stayed on their land because it belonged to them. In , a U. Then in , a dam was constructed on the Alabama River, flooding thousands of acres of the most fertile land in the Gee's Bend community.

During the civil rights era , Wilcox County officials terminated ferry service across the Alabama River, necessitating a two-hour drive to Camden , the county seat. All products featured on Glamour are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Basics like grocery stores and even consistent sanitation are lacking, let alone hotels. Etsy is partnering with the quilting collective, as well as the Southern arts-advocate nonprofit Souls Grown Deep, and the women-arts-worker-focused nonprofit Nest, to enable the women to sell on a global online platform. She grew up watching her mother and other ladies in the neighborhood go house to house in groups, quilting. She can complete a quilt by herself in a week, she says.