Editing Langdon Cheves (section)

===Planting and real estate===
Cheves's plantation, called Delta, made heavy use of slave labor; when his daughter was married in late 1830, Cheves gifted her forty-one slaves and three house servants.{{sfn|Huff|1977|p=153}} The total number of slaves held on the plantation throughout his management varied around 200.{{sfn|Huff|1977|p=164}} Cheves frequently replaced his plantation's overseers through his eleven years as its manager, finding that they were inadequate "manager[s] of Negroes."{{sfn|Huff|1977|p=161}} He employed lashings but refused to employ methods of punishment that he believed would "extend so far as to endanger life and health."{{sfn|Huff|1977|p=170}} In 1835, he inherited a second plantation focused on cotton production, which he named Lang Syne,{{sfn|Huff|1977|p=196}} and an additional 94 slaves.{{sfn|Huff|1977|p=203}} A third plantation, Southfield, was established for his youngest son Hayne in 1845.{{sfn|Huff|1977|p=240}}