| 单词 | plantation |
| 例句 | I had all but forgotten that I had been born on a plantation and I was astonished at the ignorance of the children I met. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew exactly how long it would be before the big wagons would pull into the front yard and load on the cotton pickers at daybreak to carry them to the remains of slavery’s plantations. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. He won’t get one either. Not to come see me. Mister Tom said for him to choose a new wife there on the plantation. That way, Mister Tom’ll own all his children.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z A new tax on Sunday labor off the plantation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Running away from the sugar plantations, or attacking them in force, was another kind of statement. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Soon they began building Muslim-style sugar plantations on the islands, some of them staffed by slaves purchased from nearby Africa. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “It ain’t far from here, sir. Can’t no one blame us for not knowing the Tanner plantation come out this far, can they?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z She’d never had occasion to speak to the man since he arrived at the plantation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z English, North American, French, and Dutch ships competed to supply the Caribbean plantations and buy their sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Of course I knew. We own — we used to own — more than a hundred. How else could you work a plantation?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z She had never left the plantation before she and Caesar ran away, so South Carolina gave Cora her first glimpse of the mingling of races in towns and cities. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I stopped the car in front of a small building with white pillars like those of an old plantation manor house, got out and opened the door. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z That night he took a boat and rowed down the river to the plantation where Old Ben lived. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Sugar plantations were Hell because of the endless labor they demanded from slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Master Lester’s plantation, Mississippi, go there and tell my wife, Sylvie, and daughter, Charity, that I died in the fight for freedom.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re on the premises of what was formerly a plantation, so the house is surrounded by lovely groves of orange trees and coconut palms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “The whites lived in the plantation house, they used to call it the Big House,” Miss Pat went on. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes she went even farther back in her memory, to the days of the plantation and the overseer and the master. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time the Haitian plantation owners and overseers reached New Orleans, abolitionists were pressing to end the African slave trade. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The fear of raids by Indian tribes led plantation owners to grasp for an alternative source of free labor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Guests at sugar plantations often remarked on how many one-armed people they saw. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She wore a long white dress like a bride’s and a tiara of sugar flowers made especially for her by the plantation pastry cook. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Also, with Rufus lying exposed as he was to new mosquito attacks, the disease could be spread over the plantation and beyond. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Johns Hopkins was born on a tobacco plantation in Maryland where his father later freed his slaves nearly sixty years before Emancipation. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Now, Mary’s presence at the laboratory built on plantation land rebuked the shortsighted intolerance of her fellow Virginian. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z A representative of the Randall plantation bought her for two hundred and ninety-two dollars, in spite of the new blankness behind her eyes, which made her look simple-minded. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The Muslims worked out a new form of farming to handle sugar, which came to be called the sugar plantation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Gloria had been working in the laundry of an indigo plantation when John Valentine met her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Smashing mills, destroying warehouses, setting fields on fire, the freedom fighters demolished some one thousand plantations—and that was just in the first two months of their revolution. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z They reminded Cora of the buzzards that chewed the flesh of the plantation dead when they were put on display. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Someday, she was going to cost Eastern Shore plantation owners a huge amount of money by guiding three hundred of their runaway slaves to freedom. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z In the old days, her mother had told her, that half language was the voice of the plantation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Whilst I am detailing bloody deeds which took place during my stay on Colonel Lloyd’s plantation, I will briefly narrate another, which occurred about the same time as the murder of Demby by Mr. Gore. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z Any slave on a Brazilian sugar plantation knew that freedom was close at hand—if he or she could make it to the mountains and join the community of Palmares. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z After years away from the plantation, after taking a wife and starting a family, they had convinced themselves they were free. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I liked to mention that I was the great-great-granddaughter of a slave named Jim Robinson, who was probably buried in an unmarked grave somewhere on a South Carolina plantation. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, Stewart had long since discovered that she was as strong as any of the men on the plantation. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z As to my own treatment while I lived on Colonel Lloyd’s plantation, it was very similar to that of the other slave children. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z And then he tells me about the rubber plantations. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a small room, with a window that overlooked the dwindling, somewhat neglected rubber plantation that Reverend E. John Ipe had bought from a neighbor. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought that was over on this plantation. I thought it died with Tom Weylin.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Angola, the country’s largest prison, was built on an eighteen-thousand-acre former plantation once used for the breeding of slaves. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z On a previous visit to the Amazon I had seen runnels just like these on a rubber tree in an abandoned plantation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And there, between the safety of Rose Hill and the danger of the outside world, were the plantation kids. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z William Henry had been waiting for her, just off the plantation, on the road. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z To this day, you can find the Great Houses of old plantations on hilltops throughout the Caribbean, and yet the strange thing is that the men who built and owned the homes hardly used them. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I was only about five years old when I left it, to go and live with my old master on Colonel Lloyd’s plantation; so that I was now between ten and eleven years old. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z Those relationships were the real evil of the sugar plantation: A master could do anything he wanted, and a slave could not resist. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The owner of a sugar plantation built a home—called the Great House—usually high on a hill, where the tropical breezes blow. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z This was an unplanned, spur-of-the-moment project for she had gone back to the plantation in order to persuade her husband to go North with her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Lots of corn grew on the land, and Polly was consistently impressed by Teenie, who seemed to know thousands of things she could make from it, but Derbyshire Farms was actually a rice plantation. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z People in his time of widely scattered plantations and even more widely scattered hotels had a reputation for taking in strangers. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Sugar plantations were farms, but they had to run like factories—with human beings as the tireless machines. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z For years, Angola—a slave plantation before the end of the Civil War—forced inmates to work in the fields picking cotton. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She stopped running as soon as she heard him cluck to the horse, and when the hoofbeats started again, she turned and walked purposefully toward the plantation, back straight, head held proudly. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Once she was off the plantation, she took to the woods, not following the North Star, not even looking for it, going instead toward Bucktown. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They had heard it so many times in plantation life, the lament of the mother over her tormented offspring. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I turn up the lane that leads to Longleaf, my family’s cotton plantation. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She recognized his evening clothes from the stacks in the colored emporium, but he wore them with more confidence than other men his age who hailed from plantations. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He led me around the corner to the side of the plantation house and drew back a tarp. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Randall had passed many years before, and it was Alice’s thought that a woman would be a civilizing presence on the plantation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But a few days afterward, a goodly number of slaves would be gone from the plantation. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They were doing the same thing on the other plantations in Dorchester County—the Stewart plantation, and the Ross plantation—they were all selling slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z On the flagstone paving beneath both lanterns there were old plantation pots in which Spanish daggers grew and extended their sharply pointed stilettos. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At three o’clock the bosses signaled the end of work and the northern plantation scurried to prepare, rushing through chores. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Cora remembered Caesar’s words about the men at the factory who were haunted by the plantation, carrying it here despite the miles. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She muscled her car through traffic while regaling them with stories about the crazy families of Atlanta—the old plantation owners, the founders of Coca-Cola, the sports stars, and the CNN news people. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It kept her and the rest of Hob warm one night, but its legend marked her for the rest of her time on the Randall plantation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Before independence, the Portuguese had a palm-oil plantation here, cleared out of virgin jungle a half-century ago. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They killed sixty white persons, men, women and children, found on plantations within a radius of twenty miles. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The Randall brothers had flipped a coin years ago to determine stewardship of each half of the plantation and in doing so made this day possible. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She knew that the master, Dr. Thompson, would not expect her to return to the plantation from which she had once managed to escape. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1896, an indentured worker in British Guiana who called himself Bechu began publishing a series of letters to the local newspaper, revealing the conditions on the sugar plantations—or “estates,” as they were called. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z By 1640, when Pernambuco was briefly ruled by the Dutch, its plantations sent some twenty-four thousand pounds of sugar to Amsterdam alone. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Then he gave her the news from her plantation, the second item that took the sting out of the Indiana cold. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z At the auction block they tallied the souls purchased at each auction, and on the plantations the overseers preserved the names of workers in rows of tight cursive. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z There was a woman on Weylin’s plantation whose former master had cut three fingers from her right hand when he caught her writing. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Sorry, but even if no Africans had been sold by other Africans, the transatlantic slave trade would still have happened. It was a European enterprise. It was about Europeans looking for labor for their plantations.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Every mile between her and the plantation was a victory. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “I have the pick of the women on my father’s plantation,” he said. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z There is one plantation now, united in purpose and method, he said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Some had businesses, and some owned plantations that were worked by enslaved Africans. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z There were ten children now, either living in the cabin, because they worked on the master’s plantation, or else living so near it that they could visit Ben and Old Rit. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z With no means to pay off their “debts,” people in prisons were sold as forced laborers to lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, farms, plantations, and dozens of corporations throughout the South. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Remember, Jamaica has sugar plantations, which are very different from the cotton plantations you find in the American South. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I guessed from what she had told me that this was what was frightening her so, driving her away from the plantation, causing her to lash out at me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z At first many of the slaves working sugar plantations in the Mediterranean were Russians, or anyone captured in war. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z And so one night, in the fall of 1851, she arrived at the plantation again. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A plantation owner who lived openly with a slave woman would have been socially ostracized, and any offspring from the union of black and white would have been left in slavery. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Among its regional leaders were five former Confederate generals; its staunchest supporters were the plantation owners for whom Reconstruction posed an economic and political nightmare. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He skipped some years or forgot or decided according to some personal accounting of grievance that the plantation was undeserving. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Work hard, be the best hand on the plantation—he’d earn his way out of bondage and take her, too. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The Friendship turned and banked eastward, climbing over green hills quilted with tea plantations and small farms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He victuals himself and his little army by sending out small sail with landing parties to seize upon such provisions as are necessary—flesh and fowl—from rebel farms and plantations. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z And Nino Carlitos acts as though he has certain rights with me, the way the slave masters think they have rights with the girls on their plantation. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The only means to pay off their debts was through labor on plantations and farms—known as convict leasing—or in prisons that had been converted to work farms. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Nguyen grew up watching French colonists abusing workers at plantations and mines, ripping out and exporting the country’s natural resources. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z "You seem to have claimed quite a large plantation here." Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The armored personnel carriers dropped everyone off near an old rubber plantation. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The enslaved Africans who were taken to the sugar plantations lost their names; they were meant to be pure property. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Beginning in the Administration Building, with a single wind tunnel, the lab grew until space limits pushed it to expand to the west onto several large properties tracing their provenance to colonial-era plantations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z On the plantation, she was not free, but she moved unrestricted on its acres, tasting the air and tracing the summer stars. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It is supposed that said girl is in the vicinity of Mrs. Steel’s plantation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z His mother was slight and delicate and not made for field labor, she was too kind to endure the plantation’s battery of cruelties. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z This year it was to be a plantation of sun flowers, the seeds of which cheerful and aspiring plant were to feed Aunt Cockle-top and her family of chicks. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes the fever subsided, but the plantation was always still there. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When I visited an old plantation called Taperinha, site of an earlier Anna Roosevelt dig, the man at the tiller abruptly turned the boat straight into the forest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was mainly the wealthier Europeans who became land barons, plantation owners, and successful businessmen in the colonies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The term derived from the days of slavery, when plantation overseers made sure that the work was done and the discipline maintained. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sarah gave me the look of silent rage that I had not seen since my first day on the plantation. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z And there are still sugar plantations where the work is brutal. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z On the Randall plantation, the doctor was only called when the slave remedies, the roots and salves, had failed and a valued hand was near death. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The girl’s vulgarities reminded Cora of the plantation and the stream of oaths delivered by the hands when master’s eye was not on them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He gave her passes to visit the Parker plantation every New Year’s Day feast; Felice’s sister was a washwoman there. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “We’d be delighted if you and the Senator could drive out to the plantation for supper sometime, take a walk around the orchard?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z My goal was always the same: find the other kids, the ones that got to run the fields because their Momma's weren’t ladies who owned the plantation. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Mourning and George were enslaved on a tobacco plantation in Clover. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z On a plantation there were large groups of workers—between fifty and several hundred. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In an overgrown patch, a former plantation bricklayer built a forge for a former plantation blacksmith. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When Terrance appeared on his brother’s plantation, he usually appraised each slave and made a note of which men were the most able and which women the most appealing. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z To escape the boundary of the plantation was to escape the fundamental principles of your existence: impossible. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Several Amerindians appear in the foreground, while the plantation owners residence can be seen along the horizon. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I remembered how we’d act like we were sneaking up on a plantation to kill the lot of slave masters and make a run for Canada with some happy, smiling, free slaves. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Two days ago they fled their master, having heard news of Lord Dunmore’s proclamation, and have spent the last two nights in flight across plantations. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Well, call me a snitch and throw me on a plantation because I tell the cops everything I saw. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Its plantations were already stocked with slaves, so opposition to the slave trade made economic sense, as did opposition to emancipation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I was the one who insisted on trying to find his grave, questioning the farmer about it because Rufus, like his father, like old Mary and Alice, had probably been buried on the plantation. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z In Sister Julianna’s company, on tours of North Carolina tobacco plantations, Farmer met a number of Haitians. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The antebellum plantation system had never taken root in West Virginia the way it had farther east and south. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z By contrast, the plantation had only one purpose: to create a single product that could be grown, ground, boiled, dried, and sold to distant markets. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z There are no records of Fannie’s life, but she was most likely born a slave on the Lacks property, and like most Lacks slaves who stayed on the plantation as sharecroppers, she never left. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “And you,” he said, pointing to Amari, “get up and help her! Hurry! I’ll ride to the next plantation for more help.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z They sold all of us from the plantation when old Mister Malbone run up his debts too high. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z On the plantation of Edward Brodas, the slaves knew when the Georgia trader arrived in Cambridge, the nearest city, and rented a room in the tavern. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z To understand the slavery that brought Africans to the New World, you must begin with the death rate on the sugar plantations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Weed has been communicating with shipping companies and other ‘knights,’ plantation masters and politicians mostly, all throughout the Americas. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He could have let his temper flare, could have driven me from the plantation very quickly. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z ‘You can leave Master Lester’s plantation when you have paid off your debt.’ Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She tried to explain to them why none of them could go back to the plantation. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They said she took them to bed like some kind of plantation Delilah, stealing their strength in order to keep herself young and strong. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Louisa is her name. She absconded from her plantation in the confusion of the reorganization and hid in the woods these many months. Believing she had escaped the logic of our system.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z One day last December, Pap come home in a turrible state after he spent a afternoon working on the Tanner plantation. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Cora had decided on the way over that in her new position she would avoid the cadences of plantation speech the best she could. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “That’s like saying that the slaves didn’t have jobs until they built the plantations.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z What those from the Deep South wanted was open-ended access to African imports to stock their plantations. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The tea break was one of the ways the brutal sugar-slave world of the plantations and the new work rhythm of the industrial factory were linked. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z When the nation split during the Civil War, Northerners could no longer get cane from those plantations along the Mississippi, so they had to go across the ocean—to paradise: Hawaii. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Polly had learned that Cato, the oldest slave on the plantation, always seemed to know everything that went on while managing to do very little work at all. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Workers could not leave the plantation unless they had a pass. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Folks came from all over, plantations that had favored this or that arrangement of quarters, so the cabins came in various shapes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z We have fallen upon a plantation downriver with infinitely less gentility and infinitely unhappier issue. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Former slaves literally walked away from their plantations, causing panic and outrage among plantation owners. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z By that age on the Randall plantation all the joy was ground out. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He gathered slaves to attack a plantation, then head down toward New Orleans. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Now growers who knew all about plantations, mills, and refining found sugar waiting for them on islands as beautiful as Hispaniola had been when Columbus arrived. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Pap said as harsh as Cap’n Buck was on the white farmers near the Tanner plantation, he was even worst on the slaves that dared cross him. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Her husband, a product of a southern plantation, had, like my father, gone off and left her. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Prior to the Civil War, when West Virginia was still part of the state of Virginia, these ancestors of mine were slaves on a plantation called The Bower, in Leetown, Virginia. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “Yes. It is work in the tea plantations of Ceylon.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z At the age of 16, George went off to live with his brother at Mount Vernon, Lawrence’s Potomac River plantation. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z What really grabbed me was footage of Clover, an old plantation town in southern Virginia, where some of Henrietta’s relatives still seemed to live. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The road to the plantation had been cut into the Amazon’s famously poor soil—it was the blaring orange- red of cheap makeup, almost surreally bright against the great dark green leaves of the forest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Cat-hauling a two-year-old ’cause her ma skipped off the plantation for a couple hour? The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Thomas Thistlewood, the plantation owner who cataloged his sexual exploits, had a lifelong relationship with a slave named Phibbah, whom, by all accounts, he adored, and who bore him a son. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z On the night of August 14, 1791, commanders from the richest sugar plantations in Saint Domingue gathered in a place called Alligator Woods and swore a solemn oath. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Best to measure time now with one of the Randall plantation’s cotton scales, her hunger and fear piling on one side while her hopes were removed from the other in increments. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They saw, only too clearly, that Oldham was bent on re-creating in the public housing projects the world of the plantation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z When we were in striking distance of a plantation known to the pilot, we put out in the boats and made our way to shore. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z A medical evacuation Jeep got me through disguised as a corpse all the way to Bikoki, an old rubber plantation settlement outside of Coquilhatville. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He said the Big Buckwater River, which lay off to the southeast of the plantation, was just a little stream compared to the Choptank, and the Choptank was less than nothing compared to the Bay. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z We were right about what he would intend to do: that he would not even pause for breath before undertaking to restore his house and plantation as near as possible to what it had been. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z Washburn and Read hold a council of war at a hilltop plantation known as Chatham, roughly halfway between Rice’s Station and High Bridge. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The growing demand for labor on plantations was met through slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Then she thought of the plantation and how the land rolled gently down toward the river, thought of Ben and Old Rit, and that Old Rit would be inconsolable because her favorite daughter was missing. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The governor of the colony rushed toward the burning plantations, where he met a group of armed slaves, and asked them what they wanted. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Since one cannot live on sugar, the crop grown on plantations could not even feed the people who harvested it. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z On setting sail, I walked aft, and gave to Colonel Lloyd’s plantation what I hoped would be the last look. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z Longtime residents of the Randall plantation couldn’t help but compare the funerals of the father and the son. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He was only half that, which meant he was the oldest slave anyone on the two Randall plantations had ever met. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It could truly be said that every plantation thereabout “at its garden gate, has an oyster-bed, a fishing-bar, and a ducking blind.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d gone to plantation schools and served in the houses of men who had shelves full of books. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “My parents. They were killed trying to escape a plantation. After they’d left me with someone to smuggle me up north.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She lived in an old three-story, rundown plantation house with morning rooms and sun rooms, and porches wrapped around every floor. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Polly thought about the slaves she had come to know since she had come to the plantation. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z But I thought better of bringing them to the plantation house; they had a much better chance of staying alive in the abandoned village, away from people. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z On the roads outside town, we'd drive past the gateways to what were once slave plantations, though they were enough of a fact of life that nobody ever bothered to remark on them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Before their purchase by James Randall these two had been so tangled by sufferings that they could not weave themselves into the fabric of the plantation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The audience contributed dances from their own plantations and copied each other in the circles. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She had learned, in her short time on the plantation, never to ask too many questions. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Old Mary had been the midwife of the plantation before her age caught up with her. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z There were free Negroes living in their own cabins on the edge of the woods, not far away from the plantation. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground had been turned and tamped to make a nice yard for the mutts house, which sat in the center of her plot like a grand mansion in the heart of a plantation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The plantations were twice as big, twice as numerous, the fugitives more plentiful and nimble, the bounties higher. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The fiddler came from this or that plantation, the banjo man from another state: Every day the musicians in the dormitories shared the melodies from their regions and the body of music grew. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They kept going farther and farther away from the quarter on the plantation, where she had been bom and brought up. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Slant’s childhood and youth were spent upon a tobacco plantation presided over by a benevolent widow by the name of Croak and her son, who was of Slant’s age. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Slaves caught off the plantation need passes, unless they wanted a licking and a visit to the county jail. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The plantation that belonged to Edward Brodas, in Dorchester County, was typical of this section of Mary land, for one of its land boundaries was a river—the Big Buckwater River. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Everybody knew it was his mother, Kate, who saved him from affliction and the early winnowing that is every plantation slave’s first trial. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The fleet passes vast plantations laid upon the banks in unspeakable gentility. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z By now, the husbands who lived on other plantations had come for their Sunday-night visits. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When she found the words to share it with Cora, the girl would understand there was something beyond the plantation, past all that she knew. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The Africans who had worked in sugar quickly left the plantations and tried to farm or moved to nearby towns. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Men hunted otter and beaver in the swamp and the moss sellers scavenged from the trees, tracking far but never too far, yanked back to the plantation by invisible chains. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z And so no cities, no giant plantations, and no roads necessary for transporting produce from the one to the other. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When Harriet heard of the sale of her sisters, she knew that the time had finally come when she must leave the plantation. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that wasn’t the way on all plantations; there were good masters and mistresses, as I’ve heard tell, but I didn’t happen to come across any of them.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z So many sugar plantations dotted the landscape that slaves called commanders managed other slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Why can’t they? On the plantation, master decided everything for us. I thought we were done with that here.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Ben asked when they had broken out of Ravenel County and in a hauntingly crepuscular light were shooting across a causeway where the locks and sluices of an old rice plantation were still visible. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z For four more nights they traveled smoothly, heading ever farther away from the plantation of Percival Derby. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z "That's true, sir. And the white family that owned the land when it was a big plantation still lives in town." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In Dorchester County there were parties on the big plantations, the clink of glasses, the sound of singing, carriages arriving at the Big House. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly, Japanese women joined men on the sugar plantations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I look upon my departure from Colonel Lloyd’s plantation as one of the most interesting events of my life. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z The more sugar was planted, the more mills were built to grind it, the more docks were hammered into place to ship sugar, the more enslaved people were brought from Africa to work the plantations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z This mysterious underground railroad was spoken of, in whispers, in the quarter on the Brodas plantation, just as it was on all the other plantations. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “She was on a plantation down near Montgomery. She had two children and she had a man she loved, but they weren’t married because the slaves couldn’t get married like the white folks could.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The Belgians and the Americans who run the rubber plantations and copper mines, I imagine, are using larger sacks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is a rice plantation. Can you say ‘plantation’?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He lived on the plantation because he was married to Auntie Evelyn and relations between Negroes and whites were frowned upon. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The woman wasn’t lamenting an old plantation injustice but a crime perpetrated here in South Carolina. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Randall forbade religion on his plantation to eliminate the distraction of deliverance, and churching never interested her once she came to South Carolina. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The Islands have a long and complex cultural history, but are most known for their rich African-American heritage as white plantation owners left the islands in the 19th century leaving their slaves behind. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z By then they had gained a few pounds, earned wages, and begun to forget the daily sting of the plantation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Some of them had been wounded by plantation owners who had attempted to halt their flight. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The nights without number she spent up in the miserable loft, tossing about, kicking the woman next to her, devising ways off the plantation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The plantations were Hell because the masters and overseers were treated as gods—which turned them into devils. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The plantation was beginning to have a ragged, uncared for look. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I was probably between seven and eight years old when I left Colonel Lloyd’s plantation. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z She did not know how to reach the Brodas plantation, did not know in which direction to walk, assuming that she could have got away from the house. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z According to some, the backwoods stills of the old men on the Stone plantation produced the best corn whiskey in the county. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They burned plantations and commissaries, tore up tracks to impede the passage of the trains that began to open their path with machine-gun fire, and they cut telegraph and telephone wires. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He was from Ireland, and he arrived in Jamaica in 1784 having bought a coffee plantation. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The newspapers liked to impress the fantasy of the happy plantation and the contented slave who sang and danced and loved Massa. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She might be found sitting sound asleep, not a mile away from the plantation, motionless by the side of the road, in plain view. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But perhaps some of the enslaved people had the personal pleasure of realizing that they had knowledge that the plantation owners needed. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z From here I can see the creek, the gorge, and a pine plantation. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I spent two years of childhood on this plantation in my old master’s family. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z They shouted at her, telling her that she was a fool and they would make her go back to the plantation with them. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Slaves were disappearing all the time from the nearby farms and plantations. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day, Monday, the brothers should have been back on the plantations where they worked. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “When we in the wagon and ’bout two mile out from the plantation I starts recognizing where we at and I starts getting antsy as Missy. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I planned to stay on the Weylin plantation long enough to see Alice leave, to find out whether she would be able to keep her freedom this time. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Brazil is the land that imported more Africans than any other to work on sugar plantations, and in Brazil the soil is still perfect for sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z This was a severe period on that plantation, and saw many unhappy restrictions upon the small luxuries and freedoms the servants had been accorded. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The place was, we swiftly perceived, a plantation recently sacked and brought low. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z If she kept a good pace, she’d be back well before first light and the earliest risers on the plantation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The trader called upon the tobacco plantation looking for slaves of breeding age, preferably with all their teeth and of pliable disposition. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The Indian indentures were lied to, they were tricked, they were no more than cheap labor to keep the plantations running—but they were still individuals. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The Christmas-tree plantation was dark as eclipses and whiffed of bleach. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z They were afraid of the living death that awaited them in the rice fields, on the great cotton plantations, the sugar plantations, in the deep South—and so ran away. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z We awoke before dawn to the sound of horns blown on plantations to call the slaves to toil. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z After the Civil War the former slave stayed on as plantation boss. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z While conditions varied from plantation to plantation, the majority of slaves lived a twilight existence in which no area of human relations or personal dignity was sacred. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z As plantation farming expanded, particularly tobacco and cotton farming, demand increased greatly for both labor and land. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A demonstration was impossible of course, but if they made it off the plantation they would depend on this rare gift. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z At the immigrant depot they were now assigned to a plantation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z If she started in Typical Day on the Plantation, she could get her two plantation shifts finished just after the midday meal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “That must be where they got their name. Evidently they took it when they left the plantation. That’s the only thing I can figure.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It was no longer safe to walk along the roads at night, no longer safe to walk about the plantation where they lived, at night. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z His word had always been accepted on the plantation because he was never known to tell a lie. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z For as long as I had been on the plantation, it had not happened—no white had come into the cookhouse. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The court agreed and divided the original Lacks plantation into two plots “of equal value.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He had an odd manner of speech, a queer lilt that reminded Cora of the way those on the plantation sounded after they lost their wits. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z An anchor in the vicious waters of the plantation to prevent her from being carried away. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Quamina, the alleged leader of the uprising, was hanged in chains in front of the entrance to one of Gladstone’s plantations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z If he told the master that she was missing, she would be caught before she got off the plantation. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon the priests were holding mass baptisms on shore and marching their converts onto ships bound for sugar plantations in Brazil, slaves to the higher god of commodity agriculture. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t mix with the more bothersome element on the plantation, and she knew that he sometimes went off with Frances, one of the housemaids. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “For twenty dollar a week, you ain running a plantation in here.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But fear was already in pursuit, as it had been every day on the plantation, and it matched their pace. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In the United States the arsenic-drenched soils of tobacco plantations, of many orchards in the Northwest, and of blueberry lands in the East may easily lead to pollution of water supplies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Everyone on the plantation admired this skill of Ben’s. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Minstrels projected a greatly romanticized and exaggerated image of black life on plantations with cheerful, simple, grinning slaves always ready to sing, dance, and please their masters. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At noon, we sent word at a plantation chosen by what means I know not, requesting they should deal with us fairly and present us with corn, livestock, and other sundry provisions. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Early in the nineteenth century, the dream of freedom had begun spreading through the slave cabins on all the plantations. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But none of these miseries was the true reason the plantations were so evil. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He was handicapped by illiteracy and he offered me the job of accompanying him on trips into the delta plantation area to write and figure for him, at wages of five dollars a week. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Sugarcane plantations stretched in all directions, worked by imported slaves and native Arawak Indians who were pressed into service by Dutch and Portuguese plantation owners. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “A speculator was one of those people who went from plantation to plantation looking for slaves they could buy,” Miss Pat said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “All right. Getting you home with me when I go is the one thing more important to me than staying with Rufus. It’s worth getting kicked off the plantation for.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The inside of the train was swanky as what my imaginings had told me the inside of the Tanners’ plantation house was like. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z She could hardly get through a day without Mrs. Caruthers talking about their family plantation back in Virginia. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z At the Randall plantation he continued his enterprise, joining the Sunday caravan into town with the moss sellers, penny seamstresses, and day laborers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z To work their sugar fields, Dutch and Portuguese plantation owners had first tried to enslave the native Amerindians, but unrest and escape attempts grew so high that the practice was finally outlawed. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He told me that after the war he wanted to go to the Dutch East Indies and live on a rubber plantation. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z They were books that discussed slavery and plantations and the time before emancipation in a reverent and honorable way, like it had all been a good thing. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z By the nineteenth century, when growers turned to the richly planted islands of Hawaii, they brought with them the knowledge of how to run sugar plantations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z A plantation owner was a kind of god or king, ruling over his empire of sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z So she had a friend write a cryptic letter to a free Negro, Jacob Jackson, who lived near the plantation where two of her brothers worked. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In the fields, late in the day, afternoon merging into night, a cornhusking bee was in progress on the Brodas plantation. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Rats were every-where—the records from one plantation in Jamaica report three thousand of them captured in just six months. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Harriet decided that from the dilapidated look of the plantation—fields lying fallow, the Big House in need of repair—Doc Thompson would soon be selling slaves again. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In the stories, he took slaves’ spirits on trips of happiness and joy and wonder, all while their bodies remained on the plantation and continued to work. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z By slow stages they reached Philadelphia, where William Still hastily recorded their names, and the plantations whence they had come, and something of the life they had led in slavery. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Situated in the coastal plain of southwest Alabama, the fertile, rich black soil of the area attracted white settlers from the Carolinas who amassed very successful plantations and a huge slave population. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The quarters of all the nearby plantations were thoroughly searched and no small number of slaves beaten on principle. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Monroe County had been developed by plantation owners in the nineteenth century for the production of cotton. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z When Ajarry planted there, soon after her long march to the plantation, the plot was a rumble of dirt and scrub behind her cabin, at the end of the line of slave quarters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z All through the plantation, from the Big House to the stables, to the fields, he had a reputation for absolute honesty. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, no one else could claim the plantation’s mistress as their momma and an unknown field hand as their poppa. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I needed time to catch up with myself—and catch up with life on the plantation. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z A stray not only in its plantation meaning—orphaned, with no one to look after her—but in every other sphere as well. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I got the roasting heat and the crocodiles and the snakes and the long safaris up-country, selling Shell oil to the men who ran the diamond mines and the sisal plantations. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z While the masters enjoyed the life of wealth in Europe, the daily routine of the plantations was left in the hands of the overseers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z There were few plantations that could boast that they had never had a slave run away. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted Rufus and Tom Weylin to waste time looking around the plantation for me tomorrow when they realized they hadn’t seen me for a while. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z A lot of the Negro girls’ combat schools are in old plantation houses, while the boys’ combat schools are in abandoned military barracks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Each plantation hath thus strummed and beat out its own peculiar suites, its own lively airs, its customs negotiated through use. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “They are drawn from several of the Colonies. They are, for the most part, merchants, the owners of some few plantations ... rice, tobacco.... They have been most generous in their funding.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z William Beck- ford, for example, came from a family that owned twenty-four sugar plantations in Jamaica. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Though a number of Labadists still lived at La Providence, the plantation was eerily quiet, a bleak reminder of the dangers of colonial life. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I shall write sonatas en trio; and Slant perhaps shall be proprietor of his own plantation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Apples, peaches, and plums grew abundantly on the plantation, as well as dozens of vegetables that Amari had never seen. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z We were on the plantation not far from the house. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Hilly chats, throwing things our way like, “Stuart, Skeeter here lives on a plantation just north of town. Didn’t the Senator grow up on a peanut farm?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Ridgeway knew that image to be false—he didn’t need to dissemble about the business of slavery—but neither was the menace of the Randall plantation the truth. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z After the Nat Turner insurrection, fear hung over the plantations from Virginia on down through Maryland, down to Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the stories were conjured by white plantation owners taking advantage of the long-held African belief that ghosts caused disease and death. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Thus if a Southern plantation owner said you were a slave, you were—unless a white person interceded in a court of law on your behalf and testified that you were rightfully free. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When first summoned to the Randall plantation, he was due for a challenge. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The infamous slave catcher Ridgeway paid a call on the plantation one week later. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Ben’s an old man and been on this plantation all his life. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Inhabitants of those islands developed intensive dryland agriculture requiring a heavy input of labor to build terraces, carry out mulching, rotate crops, reduce or eliminate fallow periods, and maintain tree plantations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The repeated pattern doubtless has to do with geography—southeastern climate and soil favor plantation crops like tobacco and cotton. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He now had a plantation; inside of two years he had dragged house and gardens out of virgin swamp, and plowed and planted his land with seed cotton which General Compson loaned him. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z For no matter how poorly he had been treated by his boss, if he left the plantation, he could be prosecuted and jailed. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Had I met Bess upon a Mississippi plantation, I would have expected her to act as she had. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z An auction in Savannah led him to the Randall plantation and his gruesome awakening. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z While marching through Alabama in June 1862, Garfield got a disturbing look at slavery on southern plantations. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Soon there were sugar plantations all over the island, and a kind of “white gold” rush began. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Divided into two groups, they moved as quietly as they could through the plantation and into the surrounding jungle in single-file lines, searching for the North Vietnamese. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Béene, I spent many years working for the Belgians in the rubber plantation at Coquilhatville, and I saw rich men there. They were always unhappy and had very few children.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The next three months were hot, confusing, and miserable as Amari tried to assimilate into the culture of plantation life. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m from the Tanner plantation in the Richland District. This boy’s from Possum Moan.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z On the Brodas plantation, the slaves whispered about The Prophet too. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The overseer told them that the plantation was to remain intact. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Cora had heard Michael recite the Declaration of Independence back on the Randall plantation many times, his voice drifting through the village like an angry phantom. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z For beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In the old crippled men and women of the plantation he saw what lay in store for his mother and father. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z These Sabbath-day dances are the long custom among the plantations and farms of this Colony; but I have never seen the like. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z She never did know where it was located, near what town, how far away from the Brodas plantation. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Cora’s mother and Ava grew up on the plantation at the same time. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Everyone on the plantation but Momma was a Negro, all excepting for Mr. Isaac. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Both they and the Christians experimented with using their slaves to run the plantations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She gazed out the door of the small kitchen house and looked dreamily down the path that led away from the plantation. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z A plantation was a plantation; one might think one’s misfortunes distinct, but the true horror lay in their universality. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Get them off the plantation and they learned to read, it was a disease. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z So the “delicate mistress” sat and watched the plantation’s little mongrel-complexioned children, sired obviously by her father, her husband, her brothers, her sons. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They set out together, Nat Turner and his six followers, and at every plantation where they stopped, other slaves joined them, until there were seventy of them altogether. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Riding trains, autos, or buggies, moving from morning till night, we went from shack to shack, plantation to plantation. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “A car? What are you going to do with a car? Can’t haul stuff in it, can’t take it out to the plantation. Or fishing. There’s not a thing wrong with that old pickup.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z I then spent about a fortnight on a sugar plantation in Natal living with a group of African laborers and their families in a small community called Tongaat, just up the coast from Durban. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The entire community would fit in one tiny corner of Mr. Derby’s plantation, Amari observed, as she walked past the small gardens of the people who lived there. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the ship arrived in Surinam, the slaves were sold at auction to plantation owners. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Before war came to it, it must have been a beautiful place with its palm trees and sugar plantations. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked exactly like the cabin on the Brodas plantation where she was born. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The land around the town of Nzara held rich plantations of teak and fruit trees and cotton. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A plantation was not a new technology but, rather, a new way of organizing planting, growing, cutting, and refining a crop. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Mrs. Pontellier talked about her father’s Mississippi plantation and her girlhood home in the old Kentucky bluegrass country. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of them were illiterate migrants from southern plantations and they had never been vitally interested in politics until they had entered the Communist party. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was now more than seven years since I lived with him in the family of my old master, on Colonel Lloyd’s plantation. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z “I could just as easily sell her to a cocoa plantation,” he shouted as he seized my arm and began dragging me through the door. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Work on sugar plantations was backbreaking, and treatment inhumane. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He himself had visited Antigua in the West Indies, he had told her, and he was acquainted with some of the plantation owners there. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z You can hear it in her voice, especially after her lover, the Blacksmith, leaves her on the plantation where she’s a slave. Toni Morrison’s Truth 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z He died at his plantation; no one knows how. An African American mother and daughter journey to their family's... 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z In the show, Bill was a soldier in the Civil War, and history proves that the plantation served as a hospital for injured soldiers during the war. Scenes From Your Favorite TV Shows That You Can Visit in Real Life 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z The developing virtual trough for young and eager brides looking to pin their way to the perfect day reduces plantations to mere backdrops, stages for white and privileged love and commitment. Disturbing wedding trend: Getting married at a plantation 2014-01-05T16:00:00Z To the horror of Deep South elites, the Seminoles shielded and supplied guns to Panhandle communities of Black Seminoles, small villages peopled by plantation runaways, intermarried tribal members and freed slaves of the tribe themselves. When Native Americans were arms dealers: A history revealed in 'Thundersticks' 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z One day, I read about an enslaved woman whose master was working her to death to pick as much cotton as she could on a plantation in Mississippi. Raising a black son in the US: ‘He had never taken a breath, and I was already mourning him’ 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z This is dubious — the liquor was likely invented in many places, around the same time — but Barbados can claim one of the earliest documented uses of the word, in a 1658 plantation deed. On a Caribbean Rum Trail 2014-02-21T19:02:44Z Philly.com reports Friday that art experts who gathered two years ago at Mount Vernon, Washington’s Virginia plantation, are now making their findings public. Experts say portrait isn’t of George Washington’s chef 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z You would go out to a house party on the plantation, and somebody always be cooking up some catfish to sell. 'Last Man Standing' finds CeDell Davis growling his finest Delta blues 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Named after his father’s ancestral estate in Scotland and also, perhaps, the St. Croix plantation of his mother’s sister, this gracious yellow house is the only surviving Hamilton residence. Hamilton’s New York Haunts 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z In his earlier features, Mendonça Filho used different spaces and homes — a middle-class neighborhood, a derelict plantation, an apartment threatened with demolition — as conduits to ideas about history, community, surveillance and power. ‘Bacurau’ Review: Life and Death in a Small Brazilian Town 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Enormous sugar cane and pineapple plantations, owned by privileged white haole families and managed by Portuguese overseers known as lunas, ran on the backs of immigrants seeking a small piece of the American Dream. Review | In Gail Tsukiyama’s ‘The Color of Air,’ characters reel in the wake of the Mauna Loa volcanic eruption 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z And an adjacent tablet commemorates the suffering of millions of Africans in slave ships and sugar plantations while celebrating the resilience of the human spirit in the face of an overwhelming evil. Slavery Was Part of Barbados Life for Centuries. But Its History Can Be Hard to Find 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The Virginia model began with commercial motivations: Jamestown settlers sought plantations on the river, not cities on the hill. Favoring Immigration if Not the Immigrant 2011-05-08T22:39:54Z Ms. Hill said that many plantations tell the story of slavery well and shouldn’t be excluded from the C.V.B. site. Charleston Tourism Is Built on Southern Charm. Locals Say It’s Time to Change. 2020-08-12T04:00:00Z “I understood the text,” Foxx said, alluding to the historical accuracy of the word and how it was used relentlessly by slave owners on plantations. Jamie Foxx looks back at “Django Unchained” and Quentin Tarantino’s use of the N-word 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z He has written numerous travel stories on black culture and history for The New York Times, from the Underground Railroad to rice plantations in South Carolina. On a Civil Rights Trail, Essential Sites and Indelible Detours 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Europeans colonized the Caribbean and exploited enslaved workers on sugar plantations to satisfy the collectively voracious sweet tooth of the continent. Ginger beer is a Jamaican holiday tradition — and my grandmother's is the spiciest 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z At least in the movie, that unique chance to see the rest of the state opened his eyes to atrocities at other plantations, and what he saw shocked and emboldened him. How three powerful movies this year took on Virginia’s troubled racial history 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z She conjured up the idea of making corn husk dolls for little girls on the plantation. With cotton and corn husks, actress connects to her '12 Years a Slave' character 2013-11-20T20:03:02Z In "1493," he argues that malaria was the main reason the English colonists brought Africans to North America to work the Southern plantations. '1493': How Columbus' discovery changed the world 2011-09-29T19:55:04Z In the 19th century, that same land was home to a slave plantation. From a slave house to a prison cell: The history of Angola Plantation 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z There is “an unspoken type of code, that Black people don’t do weddings at plantations,” she said. Despite Everything, People Still Have Weddings at ‘Plantation’ Sites 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z And some of the management techniques Desmond describes evolved simultaneously on the large, lucrative British sugar plantations there. A Landmark Reckoning With America’s Racial Past and Present 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z What is clearly recorded is that he worked alongside about 200 other slaves at Kirkwood, a plantation near Jackson. Antiques: At Antiquarian Book Fair, Photos of Obama Ancestors 2012-04-05T22:12:59Z If many Americans imagine slavery essentially as a system in which black men toiled on cotton plantations, Miles upends that stereotype several times over. Detroit’s Untold Stories of Slavery 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z A young enslaved man with special powers escapes from a Virginia plantation. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z The Rural Life Museum in Baton Rouge, once a favorite of my children, is dedicated to the back end of plantation life, with reconstructed slave cabins, antiquated farm equipment, flatboats and plantation bells. Looking for Clementine Hunter’s Louisiana 2013-06-14T20:04:57Z “Weddings on plantations is often discussed in the campfire conversations that we conduct,” Mr. McGill said. Despite Everything, People Still Have Weddings at ‘Plantation’ Sites 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z They would stay at the plantation for a few weeks and then return to Philadelphia to restart the “freedom clock.” The man who fed the first president — and hungered for freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Of the area’s historic plantation attractions, Boone Hall is closest to downtown Charleston. Outside Charleston, three acres of Vietnam live in South Carolina’s Lowcountry 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Many food scholars argue otherwise, but chicken and waffles originated on Southern plantations: Enslaved Africans cooked and toasted rice batter over an open hearth, using a waffle iron. H.B.C.U. Homecomings Are Canceled, but Students and Alumni Will Feast Anyway 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Tao owns 30 acres of the island, turning part of it into a banana plantation with room for eggplant, lemon cucumbers and tomatoes. Explorer: An Aimless Sailing Trip Off Palawan in the Philippines 2012-03-09T23:12:36Z A lush Ecuadoran cacao plantation is the setting for this imaginative historical drama filled with sibling rivalry and betrayals. December paperback releases: 7 books to read now 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z It concludes June 9 with the Red Stick Rambler performance followed by fireworks at Middletown Place plantation on the Ashley River outside Charleston. Spoleto Festival USA announces its 2013 season 2012-12-09T14:01:31Z Put together from the fragments of documents that remain, the one-woman show charts Betty’s childhood, including the moment her mother is sold to another family and, later, Betty’s transfer to the family plantation. An Awakening in Columbus, a Reckoning in Williamsburg 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z The lady of the plantation, jealous of the attentions her husband pays to a slave woman, shies a heavy glass decanter at the poor girl’s head. 12 Years a Slave: An Unflinching Take on the Great American Shame 2013-10-18T17:07:02Z Her recurring use of coffee grounds evokes plantations and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. For Keioui Keijaun Thomas, the Body Becomes a Vessel 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” takes place just before the Civil War but celebrates a once-enslaved black man exacting vengeance against an evil plantation owner who makes Simon Legree look genteel. Exhibition Review: ‘The Civil War in America’ at Library of Congress 2013-01-10T20:02:01Z It is the story of two slaves who escape southern plantations through a network of safe houses and secret tunnels to reach the northern states, where they will be free. Barry Jenkins: ‘When you climb the ladder, you send it back down’ 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z He was standing behind a fence, cordoned off with the other inmates at Louisiana State Penitentiary, better known as Angola, named after the plantation once farmed on the prison’s property by Angolan slaves. I love a rapist’s artwork: A brutal crime, a delicate work 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z The plantation is now home to approximately 150 cattle and their owner. Scenes From Your Favorite TV Shows That You Can Visit in Real Life 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Django Unchained continues the theme of vengeance wreaked against historical villains, telling the story of a former slave in America's Deep South who attempts to free his wife from a ruthless plantation owner. Rome Film Festival chief hints at Tarantino "surprise" 2012-10-10T21:34:54Z It's one of three antebellum houses remaining in the area and was once the seat of a rice plantation. Backroads Guide to Carolina Lowcountry 2011-06-15T13:50:03.910Z The tribe made dugout canoe runs to Cuba to restock guns while raiding Florida sugar plantations for their lead-lined vats, which were melted down for ammunition. When Native Americans were arms dealers: A history revealed in 'Thundersticks' 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z The house, together with the yards, we learn, “is referred to as an urban plantation.” Critic?s Notebook: Emancipating History 2011-03-11T23:45:18Z In Central high she challenged her history teacher, who was telling the class that slavery was good for black people and that they were more than happy on plantations. Minnijean Brown-Trickey: the teenager who needed an armed guard to go to school 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z It was built on false hope—the majority of migrants from China, Japan and Korea came as indentured labourers, expecting something more lucrative than the plantation work that awaited them. Tiger ancestors 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Afterward, work up a sweat in the “temascal” steam bath built into the ruins of an 18th-century aqueduct used by the original plantation’s sugar mill. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in St. Lucia 2011-11-10T16:37:37Z Many labored on vast rice plantations south of the city. Ben Affleck's slave-owning family tree: records sketch a conflicted past 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z Set on a Guatemalan coffee plantation and told without condescension or cliché, Mr. Bustamante’s film won the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize for a feature film that opens new perspectives. 'Taxi' by Jafar Panahi Takes Top Prize at Berlin Film Festival 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z He went to Quebec and then the West Indies before applying for a job on a wattle plantation in Kenya. A Memoirist Remembers the Twinkle in Her Father’s Eye 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Estate Whim Museum offers a glimpse of the Caribbean’s dark history through its reconstructed plantation buildings and Great House. The West Indian Island That Shaped Alexander Hamilton 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Wall Street financed cotton production, which bloated the coffers of textile mills in New England and Britain; cotton plantations, in turn, relied on New York City brokers, financiers and businesses. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z But this one also focused on slaves on a Georgia plantation, a premise that hadn’t been explored since “Roots” did so in 1977. John Legend’s Resistance TV: Season 2 of “Underground” is our reminder that freedom isn’t free 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Kennedy hasn’t noticed an uptick in plantation weddings — rather, she says, there’s a sustained interest in “beautiful” outdoor spaces. Disturbing wedding trend: Getting married at a plantation 2014-01-05T16:00:00Z The meal began with ultralight plantation rice rolls — “with just a hint of orange zest,” our waiter said — and a chilled asparagus salad with a peppery buttermilk dressing. A Taste of Charleston, Old-School and New 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Of course, it is clear to people who live here that our economies no longer operate by way of large-scale plantation systems, if they ever did in the first place. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z We stopped that day to visit Chateau Dubuc, which was once home to a sprawling sugar and coffee plantation. Martinique: A Slice of France, Tropical Forests and,Yes, Beaches Too 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z The first time he was sent to Angola — the notorious maximum-security prison farm in Louisiana, named after the plantation that once occupied its land — he got a tattoo from another inmate: Charles Neville, the musician. ‘Solitary’ Is an Uncommonly Powerful Memoir About Four Decades in Confinement 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z When Tubman escaped from her plantation, in 1849, a published notice offered a reward of a hundred dollars for her return. The Haunted Image of Harriet Tubman on the Twenty-Dollar Bill 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z He adds: “I think the illustrator of ‘A Fine Dessert’ meant well in depicting the role of enslaved people as part of the plantation household, but it’s the smile that confuses us. Smiling slaves at story time: These picture books show why we need more diversity in publishing, too 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z In December, the Knot Worldwide, one of the biggest online wedding-planning platforms in the United States, and Pinterest, the image sharing site, said they would no longer promote images that romanticize plantations. Charleston Tourism Is Built on Southern Charm. Locals Say It’s Time to Change. 2020-08-12T04:00:00Z According to USA Today, Disney CEO Robert Iger described "Song of the South," set in the post-Civil War plantation era and including harmful racist stereotypes, as "just not appropriate in today's world." ‘Up where they woke’: Fox News and others panic about “Little Mermaid” lyric changes 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Once the Cherokee Nation arrived in what later became Oklahoma, they prospered in part due to their agrarian roots, large-scale plantations, and practice of slavery. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z “Once you start to look at the details of the whole scene at Monticello — work, family life, punishment — it is richer,” said Stanton, who wrote a book about slavery on the plantation. For decades they hid Jefferson’s relationship with her. Now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings. 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z A man named Big Anthony, who escaped and made it 26 miles before being hunted down, is whipped for the entertainment of plantation visitors, then castrated, doused with oil and roasted. Review: ‘Underground Railroad’ Lays Bare Horrors of Slavery and Its Toxic Legacy 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Settings include contemporary New Jersey and Kentucky, a war-torn Sri Lankan village, the provisional haven of a Sri Lankan university, and a tea plantation in colonial Ceylon. Akil Kumarasamy’s “Half Gods”: A Début Collection Explores Strife, Trauma, and “a Lifetime Loving Strangers” 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z She provided photos of her 10-person dinner and a large framed map of area plantations that hung over the sofa; she felt it celebrated slavery and indicated the host’s mind-set. Black Travelers Say Home-Share Hosts Discriminate, and a New Airbnb Report Agrees 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z You can still see the River Lake plantation house, which is privately owned, from the road, and, if you’re like me, drive down the dirt road abutting it to see the cane being brought in. Literary Louisiana 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Hero is presented with a challenge: remain on the plantation or follow his master into battle, with the promise of release from servitude thereafter. Suzan-Lori Parks examines notions of freedom in ‘Father Comes Home’ 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z With a libretto by Joplin, the story is set in 1866 on a plantation in Arkansas surrounded by a dense forest. Critic?s Notebook: For City Opera, Spare Show May Signal Future 2011-06-07T22:00:29Z “Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon,” he said. B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z It begins with Kunta, a Mandinka warrior abducted from Gambia and forced to work as a slave on plantations in the American south, and who defies his captors at every stage. Malachi Kirby on remaking Roots: ‘I could feel the pain, hear the screams' 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z In the book’s opening sequence, set in 1860, a slave named Rawls is caught running away from the Virginia plantation of Bob Reid. Fiction Chronicle: First Lady of the Confederacy 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Taylor favored Doric and Ionic porches on the facades, perhaps consciously adapting plantation architectural traditions into symbols of black independence. Antiques: Works by Haviland Ceramics and Robert R. Taylor 2012-01-12T21:49:49Z McQueen's film is an adaptation of Northup's memoir, in which he described the 12 years he worked on plantations in Louisiana, before his eventual release. Ejiofor 'hesitant' on 12 Years role 2014-01-03T06:56:56Z Most of the 40-plus leaf teas are sourced from smaller estates around the world, which the company says secures a fairer price for plantation workers and is kinder to the environment. 2010-01-28T08:50:00Z He’s made the same journey across the Black Belt before, so-called for the dark soil tilled by dark hands on the plantations. My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z It’s the story of an unnamed old man, his master and a monster — the plantation mastiff trained to hunt down runaways. ‘Barracoon’ and ‘Slave Old Man’ Approach the Trauma of Slavery With Care and Kinship 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Set on a rich Mississippi plantation, Williams's play shows the conflict from many angles. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Tennessee Williams's southern discomfort 2012-09-30T19:00:11Z There were stints working as a photographer’s assistant and on a Cuban banana plantation. John Dunkley, an Outsider Artist Deep in the Heart of Jamaica 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z There are plantations, battlefields, buildings and monuments to stop at, too. On the Virginia Capital Trail, bike through 400 years of history in 52 miles 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The winding road takes us along dark volcanic beaches where the clear water reflects the emerald green of the trees, and then, further up, ripples of hills dotted with banana plantations. Touring St. Lucia with its Top Chef 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z But more importantly, he’s the lodestone around which the entire plantation society revolves. Review | ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is the kind of brilliant epic that comes around only once in a decade 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Rutherford plays the sister who, early in the film, begs to be allowed to go to the ball at Ashley Wilkes’ plantation. ‘Gone With the Wind’ Actress Ann Rutherford Dies at 94 2012-06-13T13:31:01Z The book is anchored by a disturbing novella set on a South Carolina plantation in the 1950s, its land made toxic through the exploitation of enslaved people’s labor. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z He followed those novels with “The Underground Railroad,” about a young enslaved woman who escapes from a Georgia plantation, which injected a slightly steampunk, sci-fi aesthetic into an intricately researched historical narrative. Colson Whitehead Reinvents Himself, Again 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z He avidly supported its farmers, bringing them seeds collected by his consuls in their respective countries, as well as seeds and cuttings from his own plantation, where crops from Africa and the Americas were flourishing. In the Garden: Jefferson?s Vegetable Garden Still Grows at Monticello 2010-07-01T13:37:00Z Poorly managed tobacco farming has destroyed the soil on the Lockless plantation. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Suitably fortified, I cross the valley to Williamstown and climb through regimented lines of pine plantations into the Mount Lofty Ranges. The epicurean way: a four-day road trip around South Australia's wine regions 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z The show is set largely on a Georgia plantation and covers the expansion of the Underground Railroad in the 1850s. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Brooklyn’ and Olympic Highlights 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Two hours, no intermission, a painful consideration of racism and trauma told through the stories of three interracial couples undergoing a form of sex therapy that had them role-play as figures on an antebellum plantation. Was Broadway Ready for ‘Slave Play’? 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z His mother, for one, wondered why he did not commemorate the grandeur of the Old South — the plantation mansions and magnolias. William A. Christenberry, Photographer of Rural South, Dies at 80 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Kauai’s sugar industry once dominated the landscape, and the footprints of its sprawling plantations continue to shape it today. 36 Hours in Kauai, Hawaii 2013-12-05T17:25:08Z So, seven different barons, who are sort of like plantation owners, rule this country. Into the Badlands: slavery sci-fi with a kung fu edge that's unlike anything else 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z It is the rare white man who will speak racial equality to the plantation owner’s power. 12 Years a Slave: An Unflinching Take on the Great American Shame 2013-10-18T17:07:02Z Further, planting monoculture tree plantations has drawbacks, especially with regard to biodiversity. New Zealand wants to tax cow burps (yes, you read that correctly) 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Or later, life on the plantation, with “travesties so routine and familiar that they were a kind of weather.” Colson Whitehead's 'The Underground Railroad' is timely, necessary and shattering 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z The unwitting reference to the servitude of plantation life came at a moment when Black Lives Matter protests were beginning to fill streets in cities across the nation. Charleston Tourism Is Built on Southern Charm. Locals Say It’s Time to Change. 2020-08-12T04:00:00Z “Convict leasing” institutionalizes the unwarranted jailing of African-American men and women to provide labor for plantations that no longer have slaves. Review: Essential History in ‘Reconstruction’ on PBS 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Reports from the managers of colonial slave plantations, dispatched to owners and investors in Europe, also turn up frequently. Long-Lost Letters Bring Word, at Last 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z About 200 feet north of the plantation house’s foundation are the carefully preserved remains of three former slave dwellings. Less than a mile from Hilton Head, this S.C. island couldn’t be more different 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Ms. Knowell grew up in a shotgun house on a Mississippi plantation. Quilts With a Sense of Place, Stitched in Oakland 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z In North America, they're really worried about sourcing saplings for coniferous plantations, particularly up in British Columbia. How to garden through climate change 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z WGN America’s drama “Underground,” which premiered in March and portrayed a group of slaves escaping their Georgia plantation, drew a clear parallel to current conversations about race and the value of black lives. Can the new ‘Roots’ help us understand America’s current racial divide? 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z In nonfiction, Richard S. Dunn received the award for “A Tale of Two Plantations,” a deeply researched account of life on plantations in Jamaica and Virginia. Marlon James Among Anisfield-Wolf Award Winners 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z If you go to Munnar and Top Slip, there are a number of home stays, particularly in old plantation houses, listed in guidebooks and specialized Web sites like homestayskerala.com. India, Through a Birder?s Eyes 2011-01-14T20:30:41Z It was an old sugar plantation and is now an art gallery and restaurant overlooking Nonsuch Bay. The sights and sounds of summer 2011-08-08T19:30:02Z Ms. Jacobs was later transferred to a brutal plantation owner “who began to whisper foul words in my ear,” she wrote. Black History Trail Makes 200 Stops Across Massachusetts 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z The group would explore old plantation homes or abandoned insane asylums armed with thermal cameras, electromagnetic field meters and digital voice recorders to search for signs of the supernatural. Meet the ghost hunter and horror novelist who writes Sen. Rob Portman’s speeches 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z The European market is dominated by herbal cannabis, much of it grown in domestic cannabis plantations or factories, with 7m plants seized in 2012. Drug experts issue warning over 'chem-sex' parties 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z George Walker’s “Lyric for Strings,” now his most often performed work, was dedicated to his grandmother, who lost one husband, sold at a slave auction, and another who died on the plantation. Black History Month Is a Good Excuse for Delving Into Our Art 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z The episode about Clay will be broadcast from his former plantation in Lexington, Ky., which is significant, Mr. Farkas said, because “many of the compromises that Clay made were over slavery.” ?The Contenders? on C-SPAN, Lessons From Losers 2011-09-07T23:21:25Z Yes, 1973, and she and her fellow “domestics” have been trapped in a century-old bubble on a Georgia plantation, where not much has changed since Emancipation. ‘Alice’ Review: American Slavery and Black Power Collide 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z “When I asked about it, relatives provided me with only one fact about the old slave plantation,” Tomlinson writes in his new book, “Tomlinson Hill.” “Tomlinson Hill”: A white man from Texas unearths his family’s shockingly racist past 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z His wife then found the autobiography of Solomon Northup, who was rounded up in 1841 and sent to Louisiana plantations for 12 years. Hollywood reflects on race in year of black, civil rights films 2013-08-26T13:14:40Z “After all, plantations were concentration camps for black people,” Neiman said. What Can We Learn from the Germans About Confronting Our History? 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z The plantation where Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively got married has issued a statement now that the famous couple has voiced regret about tying the knot in a venue where slavery took place. Plantation where Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively married responds after actor expressed regret 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z The passage Oppenheimer haltingly translates describes the murders of Hasan’s first five victims, whose bodies were thrown into a well on a palm oil plantation. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z The episode opens in Russell's palace/plantation/basilica, or whatever that is, where Talbot is talking to Tara as though Franklin just brought her home from the ASPCA. "True Blood" recap: Love is in the air 2010-07-19T13:20:00Z In 1955, Ms. Sherwood had a notable supporting role on Broadway in Williams’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” about greedy relatives of a dying Mississippi plantation owner known as Big Daddy. Madeleine Sherwood, actress in ‘The Crucible,’ ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,’ dies at 93 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z The next day, our drive to Maquenque takes us farther north again, over bright green hills and along bumpy unpaved roads lined with pineapple plantations. It’s a jungle out there: Costa Rica with kids 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z Several plantations along the river invite visitors inside the opulent Fabergé eggs the wealthy planters called home. New Orleans celebrates 300 years of letting the good times roll 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Scrooge runs a bank and cotton brokerage, repossessing plantations and taking advantage of freed slaves — one of whom is Bob Cratchit. On eight-stop ‘Christmas Carol’ tour, varied takes on Ebenezer Scrooge 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z But those symbols include the romanticized imagery of weddings on Southern “plantations,” a practice that carries on. Despite Everything, People Still Have Weddings at ‘Plantation’ Sites 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z White’s enslaved workers, just like their counterparts on other plantations, were seasoning their food with readily available cayenne chilies. How did hot sauce get in so many African Americans’ bags, anyway? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Mr. McGriff’s ethereal depiction of two policemen in plantation whites, “Overseer, Overseer, Officer,” fuses an otherworldly sense of beauty with the more troubling note sounded by its title. Art Basel Miami Beach Was Canceled, but the Show Goes On 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Detractors questioned the Americanness of the melodies, claiming that they were African or actually derived from white sources heard on plantations. Did Dvorak’s ‘New World’ Symphony Transform American Music? 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z After Lawrence’s death, George inherited his brother’s plantation: Mount Vernon. Two Virginia estates central to George Washington’s life share little common ground 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Then when you start to move and you're leaving the plantation and going north for the first great migration now you're transient and you don't have a garden. Carla Hall corrects the record with “Soul Food” 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z He typed in the handwritten caption from one image, “Drayton Hall,” and realized that the plantation still stood. Antiques: Mystery at Drayton Hall: The Hunt for a Watercolor 2010-07-15T22:01:00Z I think of the slavery revolts, the real insurrections that happened on plantations on the Mississippi River. Wendell Pierce on bringing a Black Willy Loman to life, making "Death of a Salesman" relevant today 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z The forest needs to be cleared completely for the plantations. An Orangutan Expert Says Now Is the Time to Visit Indonesia 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z And the Northern embrace of Mitchell’s plantation nostalgia, with its depiction of happy, obedient slaves, wasn’t just harmless lifestyle consumerism. The Long Battle Over ‘Gone With the Wind’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z Lansing, a middle class, small town of 30,000, is located 25 miles south of Chicago – not exactly fertile ground for slave plantations in the nineteenth century. My hometown Confederate war 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z The Charleston Wine + Food Festival, which works with the visitors’ bureau and last year attracted nearly 12,000 travelers and national television coverage, announced in June it would no longer host events at plantations. Charleston Tourism Is Built on Southern Charm. Locals Say It’s Time to Change. 2020-08-12T04:00:00Z The history of slaves working the sugar plantations of Jamaica in the turbulent years circa 1830 that preceded emancipation is hardly a laughing matter. Family Album by Penelope Lively and The Long Song by Andrea Levy 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z This novel centers on two enslaved boys and their blossoming romance, which begets betrayal and suffering on an antebellum plantation in Mississippi. New in Paperback: ‘The Vanishing Half’ and ‘Tangled Up in Blue’ 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z We were on the lush grounds of Estate Cane Garden — a former sugar plantation owned today by the financier Richard Jenrette — gazing at the 18th-century ruins of sugar cane mills and other farm buildings. The West Indian Island That Shaped Alexander Hamilton 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Scarlett’s father admonishes her for her disregard of her plantation home. Audubon Society Gala Honors Louis Bacon, Bette Midler Sings Birdie Tunes 2013-03-28T13:44:04Z Filmed in Savannah, Georgia, on the grounds of a real plantation, the cast said they were emotionally affected by the history of the land. 'Birth of a Nation' confronts America's racial past and present 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Back then, Benjamin managed to escape from the plantation by having himself mailed to Philadelphia in a box. Review: Fixing a Dispassionate Stare on Slavery in ‘Southern Promises’ 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Between takes, the girls ran through the maze of the plantation house garden, giggling and chatting but never questioning the context of the scene. ‘Birth of a Nation’: The most powerful moments behind the scenes 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Viola Davis, born on a former plantation and who plays a put-upon wife in Fences, is almost certain to win best supporting actress. Did #OscarsSoWhite work? Looking beyond Hollywood's diversity drought 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z I played her spunky niece, and she was the Southern matriarch of a family where her brother died and left his estate, his plantation, to his African-American housekeeper. Jamie Lee Curtis Has Never Worked Hard a Day in Her Life 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z Tarantino takes a risk by casting a popular and personable actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, as a plantation owner, then neutralises any possible sympathy by giving him brown teeth. Django Unchained: tackling Lincoln-era America on film 2013-01-25T06:59:01Z The finale for our retreat was a big dinner at one of the plantations. I hosted a plantation retreat. Is it too late to say I’m sorry? 2014-01-20T15:30:00Z She dressed as a plantation owner in pants and top hat. “Sorry to Bother You” exposes the danger of bourgeois integration 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z The farmhouse, once the center of a lucrative tobacco plantation, is now a fragment of its former glory, a surreal mix of fresh gore and abandoned art. Review | In Paul Yoon’s ‘Run Me to Earth,’ three orphans struggle to survive in the deadliest place on earth 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z After a bank crisis in 1857, however, plantation owners defaulting on furniture bills left his company bankrupt, and he later died in Milton. Antiques: Search for de Soto in Southeast Georgia 2010-05-20T22:44:00Z On a recent sunny winter day, I drove 40 miles from New Orleans to a plantation on the southern banks of the Mississippi. From 1619 to the Year 3020, and Every Podcast in Between 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z I have a list of slaves from various plantations, their names and prices. An interview with Oprah Winfrey: ‘I come as one, but I stand as 10,000.’ 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z These phenomena seem just as realistic as the yams she digs up in the plantation to take as fuel for her escape. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z There are some extremely moving scenes involving Wyngarde as Lieutenant Jan Wicziewsky, including one where he pours his heart out to the admittedly confused Jimmy, the young son of the plantation owner. Newly unearthed ITV play could be first ever gay television drama 2013-03-16T00:01:20Z “If we film there,” I said, “you’ve got to give me a weekend in Tennessee for the scene in the cotton plantation.” How we made In the Heat of the Night 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Rachel Hauck’s scenic design — two antique chairs, a bench and a side table with drawers, surrounded by the towering white columns and high balcony of a plantation house — is neutral and, at eye-level, uninspiring. Review: ‘Confederates’ Talks Race in Double Time 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z A stint in the writing program at Wilkes enabled Mr. James to work on a second novel, “The Book of Night Women,” set on a sugar plantation in colonial times. Marlon James’s New Novel Is ‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Guitar-like stringed instruments were already popular in Hawaii about 130 years ago when plantation owners imported workers from Portugal. Hawaii considers making it official with ukulele 2014-02-13T03:48:19Z The British turned the island into a huge sugar plantation, its wealthiest colony in the Caribbean and the hub of slave trade in the Americas. Jamaica, Beyond the Beach 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Diallo was sold into slavery and transported to a tobacco plantation in Maryland, where he was imprisoned for trying to escape. National Portrait Gallery launches appeal to keep freed slave's portrait 2010-07-07T17:58:00Z Cora’s grandmother had died on the plantation, but her mother, Mabel, had fled and never been caught. Colson Whitehead's 'The Underground Railroad' is timely, necessary and shattering 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z McDaniel herself said that she drew inspiration from her own grandmother, who was a slave on a plantation just like the one in the film. Who is the best Oscar-winning supporting actress of all time? 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z The Bertrams of Mansfield Park derive their wealth from a plantation in Antigua that is worked by slave labourers. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z Getting married on the grounds of a plantation has long been sold as a romantic experience. Charleston Tourism Is Built on Southern Charm. Locals Say It’s Time to Change. 2020-08-12T04:00:00Z “Forbidden” begins with Union soldier Rhine Fontaine standing in the ashes of the Georgia plantation house where he was born a slave, son to a brutal master. Best romance novels of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z It’s slow progress, but over the last four years, Cenicafe has helped 55 percent of plantations change over to rust-resistant plants. Colombian coffee at the crossroads 2013-05-13T19:48:00Z Farmers were ordered to destroy crops in the area where the fungus was discovered and to quarantine plantations. Banana-targeting fungus may cause 'apocalyptic scenario' for the fruit 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z The Civil War of course shattered that economy, but there are still working plantations along the river. The American Queen Paddle-Wheeler Cruises on the Mississippi 2012-06-01T19:22:58Z Belafonte, said Cain, "was referring to the fact that I wouldn't stay on the Democrat plantation because I ran away and I ain't going back!" Cain compares himself to Clarence Thomas 2011-11-05T02:16:00Z “People on plantations are desperately poor, and they work for the global community,” Martens said in a recent interview in Amsterdam. With a New Museum, African Workers Take Control of Their Destiny 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Solomon is put to work at different plantations, and for the filmmakers it was important to maintain visual distinctions between them even if some of the architecture was similar. The Carpetbagger: Below the Line: Production Design on ‘12 Years a Slave’ 2014-01-22T20:22:50Z But he also used the card for expenses large and small that appeared to be more personal, including $10,000 for 20 rooms at a luxury plantation resort. Inside Marco Rubio’s messy American Express statements 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z The plantations also make for terrific jumping-off points for area treks. Explorer: Coffee Plantations in India Blend History and Hospitality 2010-12-31T19:55:00Z This is a lovely trail through plantations of giant Wellingtonia trees, past a waterfall and along grassy glades. Mountain biking in Scotland: it’s going to be a bumpy ride … 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z On Tortola, the popular Sugar Mill resort, set on a former sugar plantation, was extensively damaged. Storm-Damaged Caribbean Resorts Make a Comeback for High Season 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Local people served as slave labor on those plantations, alongside Africans brought by Spanish invaders. Local Food in Puerto Rico Finds Energy in Recovery 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z The tombstone marks the grave of Queen Haley, who grew up in slavery, the daughter of a white plantation owner and his black slave. 'Roots' author Alex Haley's grandmother's tombstone vandalized with racial graffiti 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z A footnote describes how he was taken from a political prison on the night of 27 January and died in a plantation close to his family home in the early hours of the morning. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z “Episode III: Enjoy Poverty,” from 2008, documented dire conditions on the country’s palm oil plantations, where workers earned less than $1 a day. With a New Museum, African Workers Take Control of Their Destiny 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z But critics say that celebrating on plantation grounds where Black people were tortured, killed and, in many cases, buried, dishonors their history. Charleston Tourism Is Built on Southern Charm. Locals Say It’s Time to Change. 2020-08-12T04:00:00Z Born on a cotton plantation near Belzoni, Miss., in 1913, he worked the fields from age 7, drove a truck for a living at 18 and got stabbed in the arm in his late 20s. Blues musician "Pinetop" Perkins dies at 97 2011-03-22T00:39:00Z Chinatown offers a glimpse of the culture that developed after migrants, originally recruited in the 1850s to work in sugar plantations, left those jobs to open their own businesses. 36 Hours in Honolulu 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z He lived, since the mid-seventies, on an abandoned pineapple plantation, in Hawaii, which he bought barren and turned, row upon row, into a lush forest of palm trees. The Final Prophecy of W. S. Merwin 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z A series of interviews with Haitians and Cubans led him to the story of Makandal, an escaped slave from a sugar plantation who led the failed revolt. Harlem Stage Prepares to Export Its Own Opera 2013-07-28T21:33:45Z Cora, left behind when her mother escaped years earlier, lives in the plantation’s lowest shack, a place for the dying and insane, those flogged into imbecility and permanent disability. Oprah’s book club pick: ‘The Underground Railroad,’ by Colson Whitehead 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z As Rogen and Goldberg recalled in a BuzzFeed interview, Robinson’s character was originally called “Uncle Tom’s Rice” and spoke in “an unmistakable plantation patois.” “Sausage Party”’s race problem: This “equal opportunity offender” is just plain offensive 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Bylakuppe is an unlikely Tibetan nook in a countryside brimming with coffee plantations and dense jungles, a region British colonialists nicknamed the "Scotland of India". A glimpse of little Tibet in southern India 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z “The narrative many plantations have been telling, that the city has been telling, is a simple one,” she said. Charleston Tourism Is Built on Southern Charm. Locals Say It’s Time to Change. 2020-08-12T04:00:00Z Hundreds of plantations, most covering just a few acres, crowd the coffee belt, though it’s likely none offers as comprehensive a tour as ultra-premium growers Hula Daddy. 36 Hours in Kailua-Kona 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z At the Ford plantation that included a garden and an arbor where Ford would read scripture on Sundays. The Carpetbagger: Below the Line: Production Design on ‘12 Years a Slave’ 2014-01-22T20:22:50Z The tropical forests of the Congo Basin, once considered impenetrable, are now yielding to logging roads, mines, and even palm-oil plantations. The Forest Elephants of the Central African Republic Are in Peril 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z In Indonesia, a team studied and presented the benefits of investing in agroforestry over palm oil plantations using a TCA framework. Can "True Cost Accounting" tell us more than a price tag? 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z At a large iron bell, Matthew encouraged us to yank the thick rope “in honor of all of the enslaved people who lived and died on the plantation.” New Orleans celebrates 300 years of letting the good times roll 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z She chose “Sankofa,” a meditation on the generational trauma of slavery that takes a modern model on a shoot in Ghana and transports her back in time to a plantation in America. With DuVernay’s nudge, Haile Gerima comes to Netflix 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Morning beverages were available for, surprisingly, an extra charge: Gorreana teas from one of the island’s own tea plantations for 1 euro, along with Nespresso coffee pods for 2 euros. Hotel Review: Sleek Minimalism in the Azores 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Charity Wiggins, a slave on a Georgia plantation, was 48 in May 1849, when she gave birth to a baby boy. He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z The variety runs from the eerily beautiful tombs of Creole grandees to a small plot on the grounds of a former plantation outside town where one of Adolf Hitler’s horses is said to be buried. 36 Hours: New Orleans 2012-02-16T17:02:36Z It's as if I got all of this energy from ancestors who were not permitted to leave the plantations for 400 years and I got all of their desire to be part of the world. Alice Walker: 'I feel dedicated to the whole of humanity' 2013-03-09T17:00:01Z They have described the Democratic Party as a “plantation” that represses African American voters who hold different opinions. Who are Diamond and Silk? How two small-town ex-Democrats found fame as ‘warriors’ for Trump. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z The industrialized paper trade crossed the Atlantic in the 19th century, eventually transforming vast swaths of American forests into paper plantations. Can a Papermaker Help to Save Civilization? 2012-02-17T21:39:00Z “The discussion of slavery is often difficult, but it is a part of history that should be discussed openly and honestly whenever plantation life is addressed,” Boone Hall management said in a statement. Despite Everything, People Still Have Weddings at ‘Plantation’ Sites 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Thornton Dial was born on Sept. 10, 1928, in Emelle, Ala., on a former cotton plantation where members of his extended family worked as sharecroppers. Thornton Dial, Outsider Artist Whose Work Told of Black Life, Dies at 87 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z “Gentlemen adventurers” want to take the land to make rich plantations. Love Among the Ruins 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z The fictional Rayburn House inn from that series is the actual Blue Charlotte villa at the Moorings Village, where 18 rental cottages, some dating back to the mid-1930s, occupy a former coconut plantation. 44 Islands and 42 Bridges: A Florida Keys Road Trip 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Today it’s a world-class diving destination, but at the time it was a sleepy coconut plantation with a few bungalow operations and a small fleet of squid-fishing boats. In Asia, Tastes of the Sea 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z There, they pinpoint even more specific locations: a single plantation where blues musicians passed their art on, or exact crossroads of storied highways or train crossings. What the blues sound like, all over the map 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z He was born in Belzoni, Mississippi, and grew up on the Honey Island plantation. Pinetop Perkins obituary 2011-03-23T12:11:44Z This book was born of an impulsive decision by the British travel writer Richard Grant to buy a plantation in Pluto, Miss., a small town in the Mississippi Delta, and move there with his girlfriend. What to Read Before You Go to Mississippi 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z On her first trip to Africa in 1999, to the islands of São Tome e Principe, she visited plantation sites, seeking documentary traces of her ancestors. Grada Kilomba’s Rituals of Resistance 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Playing a plantation owner in “Django Unchained,” he savored the sulfurous corruption of an older ruling class. Movie Review: DiCaprio Stars in Scorsese’s ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ 2013-12-24T20:02:17Z There is no better place to set in context the history of chocolate and slavery than at a plantation where cocoa was processed and served by enslaved laborers. Oppression in the kitchen, delight in the dining room 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z In 2003, the school’s longtime mascot, Colonel Reb, with his unfortunate resemblance to a plantation owner, was given his walking papers, but efforts to replace him have so far fizzled. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z While growing up on a farm in Newnan, Georgia, Jamie spent his childhood days admiring and playing in an 1852 former plantation home, which sat next door to his parents’ property. The House Next Door 2010-10-21T15:14:00Z Their grave markers have vanished, and the most prominent monument there now is a plain stone tomb for George Hibbert, a slaveholder at Jamaica sugar plantations. Antiques: Antiques - Khadambi Asalache’s London House Restored 2012-05-31T21:21:28Z We should have been winding our way through lush forests and mountain lakes instead of the never-ending banana plantations we continued to see outside our rented four-wheel drive. Three Sides of Ecuador 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z And the real forced brides of the tobacco plantations presumably either didn’t realise they could rise up against the men, or were too frightened of the consequences to do so. Not in this day and age: when will TV stop horrendously airbrushing history? 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Its six sugar plantations attracted a cosmopolitan mix of Japanese, Chinese, Filipinos, Portuguese, Pacific islanders and native Hawaiian workers, with two cinemas, three barbershops, several restaurants and a pool hall. Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawaii 2012-11-30T19:41:37Z The appeal of West Africans to plantation owners was simple: The moist climate of their homeland bore striking similarities to South Carolina’s swampy Lowcountry. In Charleston, Coming to Terms With the Past 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z To grub up coppice woodland and replace it with a plantation of spruce larches is to destroy it as effectively as covering it with concrete. Monty Don: 'Why we must save our woodlands' 2011-01-30T00:06:27Z Perhaps because he lived his life in Jamaica under the shadow of a slow death, he shaped his plantation in the image of his childhood in England. An Intimate History of the British Empire 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Considering herself a benevolent Christian woman who deeply cared for “her people,” Polk inherited her husband’s huge Mississippi plantation at his death, in 1849, just months after he left the White House. The First Lady Who Begat Phyllis Schlafly, Nancy Reagan and Ivanka Trump? 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z You have a plantation where you have 10 white people and you have about 50 or 60 black people. John Legend and Aldis Hodge Discuss ‘Underground’ 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z One, called “American Journeys,” is a chronological sequence of these mini-installations tracing the Black story as it took place primarily in South Carolina, from plantation slavery through the Civil War and the civil rights era. In Charleston, a Museum Honors a Journey of Grief and Grace 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Rob Riley plays Hicks, the brooding and emasculated drug connect on a rice plantation in South Carolina where Ernestine ends up enslaved. Promised land: Citizens, superheroes and the Gullah Geechee Nation 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z The slave cabin sat down the hill from the plantation house, and for many years it was not part of the tour. Descendants of slaves and slave owners discover legacy of Maryland’s Sotterley Plantation 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z His father established a successful plantation before he died in 1823; thereafter the family’s lifestyle diminished. Review: George Caleb Bingham’s Serene Images of Rivers and Frontier Life, at the Met 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Not long ago, I read that some enslaved Black people who managed to escape plantation life headed into the treacherous swamps of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida instead of fleeing north on the Underground Railroad. Encounters With Ghosts on Georgia’s Golden Isles 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Near the conclusion of her lecture, she tells a brief story about a wagon filled with slaves journeying to a plantation where their lives will end. Dying, with a lifetime of literature 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Color of Change’s vice president, Arisha Hatch, further likened glorifying of former plantations to glorifying concentration camps as wedding venues. The Knot, Pinterest, Brides changing wedding venue policies concerning former slave plantations 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Gerima depicts enslaved Africans on this plantation, and others in the vicinity, as forming a society that’s constituted by a sense of its own history. Three Boldly Personal Visions of Black History in a Great New Film Series 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z This novel by Chamoiseau, whose “Texaco” was awarded the 1992 Prix Goncourt, is the story of an unnamed old slave, his master and a monster — the plantation mastiff trained to hunt down runaways. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z A totally unexpected and totally successful surprise from Jones: a novel about a black man in early-19th-century Virginia who acquires a plantation and then acquires slaves. Jonathan Yardley’s favorite books That told a different story than just a plantation and the words “Slave Play.” Was Broadway Ready for ‘Slave Play’? 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Her assigned role as the “chatelaine of a neocolonial pleasure palace” discomforts her, because it smacks of presiding over a plantation in the antebellum South. Review | In ‘Red Island House,’ an American woman is enchanted, then repelled, by her time in Madagascar 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z “Blind guitar players, conjur men, and former slaves were her quarry, small town jooks and plantation churches, her haunts,” Langston wrote in his memoir. Review | A look at what brought Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes together. And what tore them apart. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Exploring the Art of Louisiana Furniture Louisiana cabinetmakers under Napoleonic rule earned job titles as elite as ébéniste and doreur, building and gilding furniture for plantation owners. Antiques: Exploring the Art of Louisiana Furniture 2010-12-10T00:01:00Z Our ancestors fought hard to refuse to carry the children of their master rapists and rear another generation of slaves, even when it meant that “barren” women were deemed worthless chattel and sold between plantations. Whitewashing reproductive rights: How black activists get erased 2014-02-25T00:00:00Z An August Washington Post report highlighted negative online reviews of Southern plantations where white reviewers decried tours that focused too much on “how hard it was for the slaves.” Wedding vendors romanticize slave plantations. The Knot and Pinterest will no longer promote them. 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Certainly, the Tennessee city has some solid presidential history, by way of The Hermitage, Andrew Jackson’s plantation home. These Are America's Best Cities for Historic Sites 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Rococo Chocolates has long supported the Grenada Chocolate Co. and owns a small cacao plantation in Grenada. The London guide for chocolate lovers 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z In the past, Dana becomes involved in the lives of enslaved Black people as well as the cruel white plantation owners and their children, yanked back and forth from her own life. Why did it take so long to adapt Octavia Butler? 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z The installation, Walker’s largest and most ambitious work to date, offers a complex commentary on the history of plantation workers and blue-collar laborers in America. | A Sweet Celebration of Kara Walker’s Giant Sugar Sculpture 2014-05-07T22:00:43Z Using court documents, tax lists, federal and state census records, as well as plantation documents and church records, African American genealogists can paint a picture of their genealogical past. Tracing my African American genealogy 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z Refused a bunk near the male-dominated pineapple plantations, she painted everything from papaya trees to volcanoes, but no pineapples; it wasn’t until she was back in New York that she begrudgingly painted the fruit. Things to Do in New York That Are Not the Governors Ball 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z But there was still incentive to stop: an owl fluttered out of the hardwood trees in the woods above the plantation. Explorer: Coffee Plantations in India Blend History and Hospitality 2010-12-31T19:55:00Z It showed cruel conditions for African-Americans at sugar plantations and auctions and on trade ships. Antiques: Condemning Slavery With a Paintbrush 2011-07-14T21:51:43Z One episode includes a trip to Monticello, the former Virginia plantation and home of Thomas Jefferson. Food Scholar, Folk Singer, Blunt Speaker: The Many Lives of Leni Sorensen 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z The land on which Angola sits was formerly three separate slave plantations, one of them named after the home country of the slaves held there. Lester Holt’s path from country music DJ to the most powerful perch in news 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The most egregious example of all – Song of the South, from 1946, set on an uncritically idealised plantation and ridden with stereotypes – has been kept off the service altogether. ‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z The Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston is lending a watercolor of Tranquil Hill, a plantation near Rose’s home; fluffy trees and grass tufts in the Gibbes scene resemble the landscape in “The Old Plantation.” Antiques: Notes to Lady Hamilton, Who Drove Admiral Nelson Wild 2011-02-10T21:35:33Z Her pre-Hays-Code melodrama followed a doomed romance between a plantation owner and one of his workers, and ended with its spurned heroine burning the fields of her former lover. ‘Cane Fire’ Review: Here Am I, Your Plundered Island 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Alone in a desolate plantation house, Jacobina, a sub-lieutenant in the National Guard, finds his reflection growing dimmer and less distinct. A brief survey of the short story part 47: Machado 2013-03-01T15:28:24Z In Tennessee, Frightmare Manor has outraged some by featuring murder scenes based on 19th Century serial killer Jeremiah Lexer at his actual former plantation. Haunted houses for adults in demand, spark community outrage 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z The Chinese found at the Bellavista pyramid in Lima were buried in the late 1800s and early 1900s and had likely picked cotton at a nearby plantation in "very difficult" conditions, said Gomez. At ancient pyramid in Peru, remains of 20th century Chinese laborers found 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z The examples include workers in the flower industry exposed to toxic pesticides and children sold into servitude on cacao plantations. National Center for Civil and Human Rights Opens in Atlanta 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z These were once fields of pineapples, and this was known as Pineapple Island; the Dole Company owned 98 percent of Lanai for nearly 100 years before moving its plantations to less expensive shores. Exploring Lanai, Hawaii, Rough Roads to Resorts 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Last year, major wedding publications such as The Knot and Brides committed to not featuring plantation weddings in addition to the image-based platform Pinterest and wedding planning resource Zola. Plantation where Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively married responds after actor expressed regret 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Angola was built on a 19th-century plantation and now holds more than 5,000 men, most of them African-Americans and serving life sentences without parole. ArtsBeat: Prison Tower to Join New Museum’s Collection 2013-07-04T15:21:05Z “The official reason given was that it was about evangelizing the Vietnamese and civilizing the population. The reality was that the French were there to extract the country’s minerals and plant rubber plantations.” Coloring History’s Gray Areas, With Strong Moral Outrage 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Lever established one of his first Congolese plantations there, in 1911. With a New Museum, African Workers Take Control of Their Destiny 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z On a 1996 trip to St. Kitts he discovered the perfect blend of all three mediums when he befriended some families at a sugar plantation and took Polaroids of them. Where Art Meets Trash And Transforms Life 2010-10-24T05:15:00Z Her narration includes sections that jump back even further in time to 1855, when she was an enslaved child on a plantation. How Two Black Women a Century Apart Experience Racism 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z In 2017, the company said it was investigating assertions that slave labor was being used at plantations in Brazil that supplied the carnauba wax it used to keep gummies from sticking together. Sweet and Squishy as Ever, the Gummy Universe Keeps Expanding 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z After slavery was abolished, the Angola plantation was purchased by a major in the Confederate Army who was awarded a lease to operate the state’s penitentiary. From a slave house to a prison cell: The history of Angola Plantation 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Visitors will be able to sit in a reproduction of a Campeche armchair, typically found on plantation porches, and try out a prototype of a searchable Louisiana furniture database. Antiques: Antiques: ?Playing House? Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum 2012-02-23T23:23:42Z Whether or not you’re a fan of that original “wascally wabbit,” the Creole plantation itself, with its slave cabins, family artifacts and raised Creole family home, surrounded to this day with cane fields, is marvelous. Literary Louisiana 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z And the new owners continue to invest: This month they will open Broadfield, a 5,800-acre hunting plantation for Sea Island guests. SEA ISLAND RENAISSANCE 2012-10-19T14:00:42Z The living conditions were uncomfortably reminiscent of those on the antebellum plantations, and rumors spread that Ellis was making a profit on the backs of the workers, which was partly true. A Tale of Racial Passing and the U.S.-Mexico Border 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z When Paul wasn’t picking coffee on his family plantation, he was sitting with his father at his piano, learning the basics of music theory. Paul T. Kwami, Fisk Jubilee Singers’ Longtime Director, Dies at 70 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Its four plush guest rooms face the sea from a magnificent perch overlooking plantation grounds. A Caribbean Without the Crowds: Bequia, a Caribbean Getaway From the Getaways 2011-11-11T19:45:00Z There are small-scale tea plantations scattered across the country, particularly in the coastal Southeast and Hawaii, which offer conducive growing conditions, including sandy soil, high humidity and lots of rain. For Americans, tea’s the thing 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z McQueen's film is an adaptation of Northup's autobiography, in which he described the 12 years he worked on plantations in Louisiana, before his eventual release. Ejiofor 'hesitant' on 12 Years role 2014-01-03T06:56:56Z In “Saving Time,” Odell looks at how quantified time was exported around the world by colonialists and how plantation owners used early spreadsheets to track the labor of enslaved people. Time Has Been Codified and Commodified. Jenny Odell Wants to Set It Free 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z One of the earliest installations here, “Untitled” from 1989, was a response to death-squad killings of banana plantation laborers in northern Colombia a year earlier. Review: Doris Salcedo’s Forceful Political Art in Guggenheim Retrospective 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Colonists brought African slaves to Peru's Pacific coast to labor on sugar plantations, cultivate rice, pick cotton, and mine guano. Three generations of fathers, one timeless Afro-Peruvian breakfast 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z “It’s literally being able to do whatever he wants to do, and still incorporating that memory of plantation life,” said Alyce Perry Englund, an associate curator at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford. Antiques: At Antiquarian Book Fair, Photos of Obama Ancestors 2012-04-05T22:12:59Z Dana, the protagonist, slips back and forth against her will between her life in 1976 Los Angeles and a Maryland plantation before the Civil War. The Essential Octavia Butler 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z Here, Getman’s Colonel — a self-deluding plantation owner who wears moral blindness as a medal — picks at a banjo, taunts the wounded Smith and in one amazingly outrageous speech, congratulates himself on his whiteness. Suzan-Lori Parks examines notions of freedom in ‘Father Comes Home’ 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Within the narrative of the film — which spans from the Antebellum to Reconstruction periods on a Georgia plantation — slave owners and slavery supporters are the heroes and slaves appear as happy, loving servants. "Gone With the Wind" dropped from Memphis theater over racial concerns 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z The company conducts hourlong tours of its half-acre educational plantation, followed by a discussion and a short film. Savoring Costa Rica, Sip By Sip 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z He is one of many in Hawaii who grew up hunting pigs, an old family tradition that dates at least to the islands’ plantation days of the early 20th century. Explorer: Hunting Pesky Pigs in Hawaii 2013-05-15T16:18:58Z A few of the buildings we passed had elaborate grilled terraces, remnants of a colonial boomtown surrounded by rubber plantations. Personal Journeys : Pink Dolphins and Sunsets Along the Amazon 2014-04-11T18:08:34Z It leaves a big impact and pays tribute to what a plantation was really about. New Orleans visitors swap Bourbon Street for Spanish moss on Beyond the Bayou tours 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z After emancipation, many of the captives reunited from the plantations where Meaher had divided them. A Shipwreck Leads to a Reckoning 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z As our tour bus moved on to the next plantation, our guide resumed her talk. I hosted a plantation retreat. Is it too late to say I’m sorry? 2014-01-20T15:30:00Z My high school, Pillow Academy, was located across the highway from Florewood River Plantation State Park, a replica of an antebellum plantation constructed by the state of Mississippi in the 1970s. Fahrenheit 2023: Even in Mississippi’s segregation academies, we learned about Emmett Till 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z The humid environment helped the spread of a fungal disease called leaf rust currently laying waste to coffee plantations across Latin America. Colombian coffee at the crossroads 2013-05-13T19:48:00Z There’s no doubt that same-sex encounters and relationships occurred on plantations — there are allusions in at least a few slave narratives. Review: ‘Sugar in Our Wounds’ May Make You Cry About the Past, and the Present 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z He pointed out that he had been William Pitt in “Amazing Grace” and a plantation owner in “12 Years a Slave.” Benedict Cumberbatch Acts Clever Again in ‘The Imitation Game’ 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Moss was a “little bitty lady” with long hair pulled back in a bun who was tough from growing up as a house slave on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation set on an isolated bluff. An African American mother and daughter journey to their family's... 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Her struggle represents the particular brand of brutality faced by female slaves, whose bodies were treated as property and who perpetually risked losing their children to another plantation — or worse. Review | Want to know what revolution looks like? Watch ‘Underground.’ 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z His father had been born and raised in a two-room cabin built on an Edisto Island plantation to house enslaved people. A Cook Who Never Used a Cookbook Now Has Her Own 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z The second part of “Tabu” recounts the passions and follies of Aurora’s youth, when she lived on a plantation at the foot of a mountain in an unnamed African colony. Movie Review: Miguel Gomes’s ‘Tabu’ 2012-12-25T22:44:18Z Among these are two landscapes depicting the buildings and environs of sugar plantations. Francisco Oller, Core of ‘Impressionism and the Caribbean,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z She was the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner in South Carolina. Reading About the Confederacy 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z The experience stuck with him, and in 2010 he formally began the Slave Dwelling Project, with the goal of filling what he calls “a void in preservation” at Southern plantations and beyond. Confronting Slavery at Long Island’s Oldest Estates 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Hall holds a particular distinction in America’s tea industry as the founder of what is the largest commercial tea plantation in the United States, the Charleston Tea Plantation on Wadmalaw Island in South Carolina. For Americans, tea’s the thing 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z These are plantation songs, songs in the field. Lonnae O’Neal: ‘Deep River’ for these deeply troubled times 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z As at other plantations, the formerly wide-open farm fields have been obscured by fast-growing Southern vegetation. Following Audubon?s Footsteps in Louisiana 2010-04-15T21:58:00Z Some believe Napoléon did this to help Joséphine’s family’s struggling plantation — and her implicit involvement in allowing slavery explains the destruction of her statue. Discovering Joséphine Bonaparte in Martinique, Italy and France 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Life on the antebellum plantation, they led us to believe, was as languid as a slow-moving river winding through magnolia trees. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' looks at the economics of slavery 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z McCarthy’s strongest rebuke, however, is reserved for Frank Wilderson, who, in his recent philosophical memoir, “Afropessimism,” argues that Black people today are still enslaved, that the plantation is inescapable. To This Essayist and Cultural Critic, the Black Tradition Is Resistance 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Before the railroad, presidents would take days off and go back to their homes and plantations to either check on their farms or just unwind. Summertime often means vacations — even for the president 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z While growing up, Ms. Fox lived everywhere from a plantation in Cuba to a boarding school in Montreal. Paula Fox, writer whose works resurfaced after years of neglect, dies at 93 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z He meets Maria while touring a local plantation once owned by his Creole landowning family. ‘Cane River’ Review: A Lost Treasure of Independent Cinema 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Jordan noted that during American slavery, workers ate field food while, at the same time, slave cooks prepared fancy dinners for plantation owners and visiting dignitaries. A Restaurant That Marries Seattle Ingredients to Southern Cuisine 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Chamber pots were excavated at plantation and tavern sites around Williamsburg. Antiques: New Antiques Websites Join Crowded Field 2014-02-13T20:33:28Z Northup was a free black man and musician in New York who is tricked and sold into slavery in 1841 and sent to Louisiana plantations for 12 years. In '12 Years a Slave,' all eyes on actor Chiwetel Ejiofor 2013-10-17T15:23:36Z But their family’s journey began nearly two centuries before on a sugarcane plantation in Louisiana – and, before that, the homeland to which they were bound. An African American mother and daughter journey to their family's... 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Originally a slave plantation on the banks of the Mississippi River, Angola grew into a brutal, privately owned prison that leased out convicts as forced laborers after the Civil War. An Angola Tower and Cell Are Bound for National Mall 2013-07-08T17:06:35Z As drought and disease threaten to decimate cacao plantations worldwide, cocoa consumption is just beginning an inexorable upward trajectory. The world's biggest chocolate-maker says we're running out of chocolate 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z Monticello itself is in the midst of restoring the area of the plantation known as Mulberry Row, which included slave dwellings, manufacturing workshops, and other buildings. ArtsBeat Blog: Smithsonian Plans Exhibition on Jefferson and Slavery 2011-08-30T19:00:23Z Slide Show: Homes for $2.5 Million A former plantation in Virginia, a midcentury modern in Colorado and a ranch house in California. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia 2013-02-01T23:10:14Z After 12 years, Solomon wins his release from slavery, thanks to the mediation of a Canadian abolitionist played by Pitt, and leaves Epps' plantation with a look of stunned disbelief in his eyes. '12 Years a Slave:' an American story unearthed by British filmmaker 2013-09-09T15:22:40Z This was a spruce reproduction plantation, all of it planted after the first cut of old-growth spruce, which might have happened nearly a century ago. Don’t shoot me! I’m just picking mushrooms! 2013-09-08T13:30:00Z And it isn’t just that the South is no longer dependent on plantation economies. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z “Familiar-Altered” addresses various sorts of realism, from Mona Hatoum’s folding screen composed of greatly enlarged cheese graters to a mural by Kara Walker in which silhouetted figures enact a surrealistic dream about Antebellum plantation life. Art Review: Linde Family Wing at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Review 2011-09-22T22:25:49Z “Enslaved Africans’ relationship to food and cooking was shaped by a number of factors, including geographic location and the financial status and disposition of plantation owners.” With 4 Color Books, Bryant Terry Looks to Color Outside the Lines 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z At that time, in painting that, I didn't know I was born on a plantation. Wrongfully convicted. 21 years in prison. Pardoned by Obama. Mr. Wash reflects on a remarkable life 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Ben Douglass, 30, who lives on Hilton Head Island and attended the fundraiser at Ravenel's plantation, said he appreciated the candidate's honesty about his past and planned to vote for him. As cameras roll, South Carolina reality show cast member makes bid for U.S. Senate 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z It was said to have been consulted by Lincoln throughout the war; its darkened regions, stained by slavery, coincide with ports and rivers and plantations. Exhibition Review: ‘The Civil War in America’ at Library of Congress 2013-01-10T20:02:01Z The Wilsons’ former plantation has largely disappeared, and it is not known yet whether traces remain of the slaves’ cabins and graves. 6 Reasons to Visit the Antiquarian Book Fair 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Photograph: Steve Schofield At one point in The Cutting Season, Attica Locke's stunning second novel, a man is utterly blind-sided when he comes upon the preserved slave quarters at the Louisiana plantation house, Belle Vie. The Cutting Season by Attica Locke – review 2012-09-29T23:05:04Z In the 18th and 19th centuries, the country was a source of slaves, bought by Europeans and sent to work in brutal conditions, often on sugar plantations on the islands of Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues. Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Excursions include visits to a tea plantation, botanical gardens, Buddhist temples and rural villages. Cruise and Air Travel News: Mekong Cruises, Caribbean Flights 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Among them: OWN’s Queen Sugar, about siblings who inherit a sugar plantation, and Fox’s Pitch, about the first female pitcher in major league baseball, who happens to be black. There's No Such Thing as 'Too Much Diversity' on TV 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Charles took her away from the plantation and the two were married in 1873. How close we are to slavery: America’s horrible legacy still deeply runs through the nation’s veins 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z In the premiere, Lamprey visits a plantation in Malaysia. TV highlights: Selina Kyle finds a friend in Bruce Wayne on ‘Gotham’ “He believes in slavery, believes in the hierarchy of things, he’s the freest slave on that plantation,” he said. The Carpetbagger: De Niro and Samuel L. Jackson Are Supporting Actor Hopefuls 2012-12-19T23:28:11Z Depicting two richly dressed mulatto women on a walk accompanied by their mother and children — all members of the island’s colonial elite — the painting also shows eight African servants on a sugar plantation. Inside Art: Charles Ryskamp Bequeaths Work to Frick and Morgan 2011-01-13T22:30:26Z There are pictures of enslaved people on plantations, but also well-off black families in tender poses, proud black Union soldiers, escaped slaves aboard a Union warship, Emancipation Day celebrations and reunions of former slaves. ‘Envisioning Emancipation’: Book Documents Slavery’s End 2012-12-21T22:48:45Z For the screening room and adjacent sitting area, they tore down an existing structure and used “lots of mahogany” to continue the plantation aesthetic in the newly built space. 2009-12-01T05:00:00Z The main issue for orangutans in Southeast Asia is palm oil plantations. An Orangutan Expert Says Now Is the Time to Visit Indonesia 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z The Whipping Man Matthew Lopez’s drama, set in the American South, about the son of a Jewish plantation owner and his family’s former slaves. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 1-8: 'Seussical the Musical' and more 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z So the midwife on the plantation, who is bringing forth the labor force, is so valuable to George Washington that he pays her, even though she remains enslaved. "Aftershock" directors on how the anti-midwife campaign wrought the Black maternal mortality crisis 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z The Cutting Season is set in the fictitious Belle Vie plantation, where the magnificent antebellum mansion sits uneasily cheek by jowl with the restored slave quarters. The Cutting Season by Attica Locke – review 2012-09-28T07:00:01Z A young slave with special powers escapes from a Virginia plantation. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Audubon, poor and unknown, had arrived in plantation country to tutor a landowner’s daughter. Following Audubon?s Footsteps in Louisiana 2010-04-15T21:58:00Z Most Jews were recent immigrants, he added, and only a tiny number owned plantations. Writing the Play His Curiosity Led Him To 2011-01-27T23:00:09Z Since then, it has survived encroachment from the tourist industry to maintain its oceanfront headquarters, 3,100 acres of coffee trees and status as the largest coffee plantation in Hawaii. 36 Hours in Kauai, Hawaii 2013-12-05T17:25:08Z The lush, swirling greens and browns of the piece reference the rural valley of Viñales, with its system of caves where indigenous people had lived, and where runaway slaves from surrounding plantations once took refuge. For Teresita Fernández, Personal Is Political 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z If their rituals recall Beckett’s tramps in “Waiting for Godot,” they also reference plantation America and biblical Egypt; this is a tragedy too big for any one era to encompass. 10 Works Over 5 Years by Black Playwrights. All Intended to Unnerve. 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Our one digression was a stop at President Tyler’s plantation, where the past is much in evidence. On the Virginia Capital Trail, bike through 400 years of history in 52 miles 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Early on, as a plantation owner, "he thought that slavery was a bad bargain, not just for the slave but the master," Chernow says. Author Ron Chernow explores the fascinating evolution of George Washington 2010-10-06T23:19:00Z But the towns on this trail he mostly left alone, concentrating instead on destroying crops, plantations and railroads while looting farms and confiscating their animals. The Ga. towns that Sherman spared in his March to the Sea In “New World,” a child laborer runs away from a tea plantation in an act of cunning and audacity, yet the act itself occurs offstage. Debut Stories Trace the Aftershocks of the Sri Lankan Civil War 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Though she labors on the plantation, her father secretly encourages her education and assures her she’ll be freed on her 18th birthday. Review | Sadeqa Johnson’s ‘Yellow Wife’ chronicles one tenacious enslaved woman’s survival in the antebellum South 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z But while the gated plantation homes and polo grounds are still there, hoteliers are angling to attract a hipper and younger crowd. Eight Off-Season Getaways 2010-04-24T02:14:00Z The play is set in the Civil War on a plantation in West Texas. Sterling K. Brown reflects on playing O.J. prosecutor Chris Darden on TV and a slave in the 'Father Comes Home' play 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The man who wrote the words “all men are created equal” in 1776 was master of a 5,000-acre working plantation who over the course of his life owned 607 slaves. For decades they hid Jefferson’s relationship with her. Now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings. 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z While describing the horror of the plantation, he also honors the slaves’ courage and relishes their wry humor. Oprah’s book club pick: ‘The Underground Railroad,’ by Colson Whitehead 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Adéwalé’s efforts to liberate slaves from plantation overseers are more meaningful and fraught than anything that Edward Kenway does in Assassin’s Creed IV. Critic’s Notebook: The Last of Us: Left Behind, a Game With the Unexpected 2014-04-25T20:23:47Z Magnolia Plantation and Gardens in Charleston, S.C., is one of the plantations that deviates from this model with a separate area of their website devoted to the Magnolia Cabin Project. Disturbing wedding trend: Getting married at a plantation 2014-01-05T16:00:00Z It runs past ravines, tea plantations and forested hills; the train crosses 250 bridges and passes through 16 tunnels. 18 of the world’s best rail journeys 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z Huppert is a defiant colonial matriarch striving to keep her family and plantation together. This week's new film releases 2010-07-02T23:06:00Z The walls are what remain of one of the last plantation houses on the island. An Awakening in Columbus, a Reckoning in Williamsburg 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Its story, of a romantic plantation owner and the girl of mixed race he adores, was set in the Old South — the land of cotton, a kingdom built on the labor of African slaves. Review: ‘An Octoroon,’ a Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Comedy About Race 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z They are now the “private residences” of the employees of the plantation and not available on the tour, even the one that goes into “everything.” Disturbing wedding trend: Getting married at a plantation 2014-01-05T16:00:00Z “I just told them we are back to the plantation — but it is for a different reason. Our ancestors, their spirit is still there for sure,” Mrs. Vanderhorst Ascue said. Despite Everything, People Still Have Weddings at ‘Plantation’ Sites 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z For a 2015 piece, “South of Gold Mountain,” he spent three years collecting stories and images of Chinese immigrants who had settled in the southern United States, some of whom worked on cotton plantations. H.T. Chen, Choreographer of the Asian Experience, Dies at 74 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Meet Cora, a young slave on a Georgia cotton plantation. In Colson Whitehead’s Latest, the Underground Railroad Is More Than a Metaphor 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Imagine, for example, if Southern plantations were more accurately called “slave labor camps.” George Washington, William T. Sherman and Viking Marauders 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z I was the “host” of our plantation’s small group. I hosted a plantation retreat. Is it too late to say I’m sorry? 2014-01-20T15:30:00Z This a deeply complex Big Daddy: a southern vulgarian who prides himself on growing tolerance, as well as cotton, on his plantation. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – review 2012-10-10T21:30:01Z Caribbean slaves stole mahogany chests and chairs when they escaped from plantations. Antiques: Mahogany’s History in Slavery in the Caribbean 2012-08-23T22:00:55Z Those who survived were forced into servitude and worked on plantations. Chains, shackles and auction documents: remnants of the Africa to... 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z So calling the Long Island property a “slave plantation” seems a bit of a stretch, given the image that phrase conjures. ‘The Manor’: unearthing a history of Northern slavery 2013-07-24T22:05:57Z “Gardens and particularly the architecture of the ‘Big House’ play a significant role in creating the desirable plantation wedding setting,” she said. Despite Everything, People Still Have Weddings at ‘Plantation’ Sites 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z The chief marketing officer for The Knot WorldWide further told Buzzfeed News that its new policy will apply to all venues, and not just those that list themselves as former plantations. The Knot, Pinterest, Brides changing wedding venue policies concerning former slave plantations 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Angola prison tower Louisiana State Penitentiary, called Angola, occupies a former plantation. The National Museum of African American History and Culture 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Miss July, the child of a black field slave and white overseer, is born on a sugar plantation in 1830s Jamaica. Newly Released - Coming of Age Novels 2010-05-19T22:12:00Z An extended tangent bringing Sheen’s unstable Captain Willard to a French plantation made the cut, perhaps due to Coppola’s affection for his late son Gian-Carlo, who appears as a nobleman’s boy at dinner. Is Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut the best version we'll ever see? 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z The defendants included prominent slaveholders, among them priests belonging to the Jesuit order, which happened to hold some of the largest plantations in the United States. Remembering the Enslaved Who Sued for Freedom Before the Civil War 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Unschooled, he learned about plants on the plantation where he lived. Botanic Garden celebrates a flower once reserved for royalty 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z The flashbacks vividly depict Old Lady Bronson’s life as a young girl when she was taken from Hispaniola to Florida to work on the plantation. These Sequels Will Keep Your Young Reader Hooked 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The aim was to bring art directly to the plantations, to stimulate economic development there. With a New Museum, African Workers Take Control of Their Destiny 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Black breasts forcibly nourished dozens of babies, black and white, on plantations as enslaved black women were assigned to be wet nurses. bell hooks vs. Beyoncé: What this feminist scholarly critique gets wrong about “Lemonade” and liberation 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z The nearly 27-mile hike traces sky-high ridgelines surrounded by volcanoes and winds through highlands, rivers, fruit plantations and coffee farms. With Mobile Camping, Remote Destinations and Light Footprints 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z In “The Museum of Final Journeys,” which opens the book, we’re in the lush, green east of plantations left idle by the emergence of plastic as a substitute for jute. Books of The Times: ?The Artist of Disappearance? ? By Anita Desai ? Review 2012-01-10T22:04:26Z At the time of George Washington's death in 1799, the plantation's still held 317 slaves, 90 percent of whom were African-Americans. Meghan McCain's rant on Meghan Markle leaves Whoopi Goldberg visibly stumped 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z In this New York Theater Workshop production, sex, race and power collide on the MacGregor plantation. 14 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z “Slaves in the Family” chronicles the Ball family’s rice plantations: Starting in 1698, the family eventually held thousands of acres in South Carolina — and the slaves who worked them. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Jack Kerouac to Black Lives Matter 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z For years, the village’s spiritual needs have been tended by a conventional brand of Christianity imposed by the local plantation owner, to whom most of the parishioners owe their livelihood. Revisiting Marlon James’s Debut Novel, ‘John Crow’s Devil’ 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Tours and exhibits at Monticello highlight the work performed by slaves in the construction of the building and on Jefferson’s plantation. 'Built by my family': America's grand buildings constructed by slaves 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z She showed images of women of all ages and multiple eras — in plantation dresses, African-style face paint, haute couture and streetwear — and of real parents mourning children shot by police. What’s Beyoncé’s Definitive Album? 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z The eponymous Frannie, born on a Jamaica sugar plantation and raised by another enslaved woman, is eventually taught to read and write by her mistress, Miss-bella. Review | Sara Collins’s ‘The Confessions of Frannie Langton’ is a startling debut 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z A slow-moving river of molten lava from an erupting volcano crept toward homes on Hawaii’s Big Island this week after burning down an outbuilding at the edge of a former plantation town. Hawaiian volcano’s lava threatens homes Photograph: Steve Schofield Some years ago, a friend drove me up the Mississippi on a tour of the plantation mansions that still stud the landscape between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The Cutting Season by Attica Locke – review 2012-09-28T07:00:01Z “There isn’t enough, and plantations are just starting,” Mr. Blanchette said. I.H.T. Special Section: Middle East: For a Coveted Resin, the Scent of Rarity Takes Hold 2011-04-28T05:01:18Z A lyrical and rebellious love story about two enslaved boys in antebellum Mississippi, whose relationship is accepted and even cherished until a Christian evangelist, also enslaved, turns the plantation against them. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Soon, though, they were under attack from escaped slaves who had organized into a formidable opposition, mounting raids on plantations. Latin America 2011 : Suriname, South America?s Hidden Treasure 2011-09-16T18:55:00Z An avid gardener, he grows endangered palm trees on a former pineapple plantation. WS Merwin is America's new poet laureate ? at 82 2010-07-05T10:47:00Z It is the rare white man who will speak racial equality to the plantation owner’s power; in , that voice is Brad Pitt’s. 12 Years a Slave and Mandela: Two Tales of Racism Survived 2013-09-09T23:34:54Z Pedro's sources their sap from wild palm trees using low intervention techniques that don't require palm plantations, and double distills their ogogoro. The delicious, diverse world of spirits from the African continent 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z Looser’s essay also addresses patriarch George Austen’s previously revealed ties to another family’s West Indian sugar plantation, calling them “very real” but “both under-described and overstated.” Jane Austen family link to abolition movement comes to light 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z "There are dozens of vendors on your site who sell plantations as quaint, dreamy venues to get married," the letter said. Five major wedding sites in talks to nix plantations as potential wedding venues 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Her father owned a sugar-refining business; his partner, Bradish Johnson, held slaves on a Louisiana sugar plantation and did not have a reputation for kindness. Exhibition Review: ?Emma Lazarus? at Museum of Jewish Heritage - Review 2012-01-03T22:12:56Z The novel examines the lives of a group of enslaved people living on a plantation in 1852. In ‘Yonder,’ Escape From Slavery Comes With a Magical Twist 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Once Ejiofor said yes to McQueen, he went into preparation mode, learning to play the violin and immersing himself in Louisiana plantation culture. In '12 Years a Slave,' all eyes on actor Chiwetel Ejiofor 2013-10-17T15:23:36Z Then came that “Gone With the Wind” tour of the neighboring plantations, each with its opulent Big House, fertile fields and flamboyant landscaping. I hosted a plantation retreat. Is it too late to say I’m sorry? 2014-01-20T15:30:00Z Estate Cane Garden, another former sugar plantation, is open by appointment. The West Indian Island That Shaped Alexander Hamilton 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Another follows a flashback to the family’s hilltop villa in Uganda with the mock plantations of wealthy Greenwood. ‘Mississippi Masala’: A Love Story Among the Displaced 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z There is that vibe, and then we were talking about New Orleans and the plantations in Louisiana and whatnot. Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ Stylist on New Orleans as Fashion Inspiration, That Yeezy Two-Piece and More 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Samuel Pinchard, the plantation owner, is a literary descendant of Simon Legree, but Jeffers has drawn him in the full height of psychological complexity. Review | ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is the kind of brilliant epic that comes around only once in a decade 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z CAKEwalk, according to the museum description, “takes its name from competitions in which enslaved Black people performed exaggerated dances caricaturing the gestures, dances, and social customs of white plantation owners.” Telling Stories of Black Life Rescued Him 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z On that day in Mr. Moles’s truck, I passed fallow hayfields, cutting into the plantation from its southern corner to rattle through fields where an apiarist had established a little metropolis of white-painted hives. Virginia’s Lost History 2012-11-22T18:48:32Z First Davis got a warm laugh when he called all actors “Piece workers on the Hollywood plantation.” Remembering Ruby Dee: A Life of Artistry and Activism 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z After he acquired a plantation there, he tells us that “the first thing I did, I bought me a Negro Slave, and an European servant also.” Review | Three hundred years later, does ‘Robinson Crusoe’ hold up as a classic? 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z But at dinner in the plantation house with four male officials, she suddenly transformed herself. Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawaii 2012-11-30T19:41:37Z As we sat talking in his truck at the plantation, a man who lived there tentatively approached the driver’s side window. Two Days with Paul Prudhomme 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z The book is set in Louisiana and centers on the discovery of a dead body on a plantation. Dennis Lehane picks first book for his imprint 2012-06-04T12:16:03Z Book a room in the refurbished historic wing, an 1830s cotton warehouse, with 14-foot ceilings, original brick walls, large plantation shutters, Tempur-Pedic beds, and whirlpool tubs. Your Guide to Charleston Hotels 2010-02-17T21:30:00Z Belying its considerable size, the house reads like a lean composition of interwoven modernist pavilions, clad inside and out with broad expanses of Jerusalem limestone, plantation mahogany, and American walnut. Tour a Stylish Hamptons Home with Beautiful Views of Sagg Pond 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z This system of contractual slavery, which combines mass incarceration with the old plantation regime in a context of free consumer choice, doesn’t much worry Cassius, whose upward mobility accelerates at his new job. Review: ‘Sorry to Bother You,’ but Can I Interest You in a Wild Dystopian Satire? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z The stories were written in dialect and tried to evoke images of a nonexistent idyllic life on Southern plantations. From Two Scholars, African-American Folk Tales for the Next Generation 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Someone was extolling the virtues of plantation life in a soft Southern accent as maids polished the silverware in the kitchen. I hosted a plantation retreat. Is it too late to say I’m sorry? 2014-01-20T15:30:00Z For decades, the area has been home to such plantations; now, as they begin to welcome visitors, they are drawing attention for the very hospitality that we were enjoying. Explorer: Coffee Plantations in India Blend History and Hospitality 2010-12-31T19:55:00Z Historic structures, such as the Thomas Carnegie mansion ruins, surround what were once thriving cotton plantations. Water, Sand and Plenty of Elbow Room on 8 Wild, Protected Coastlines 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Mary — actually, the affectionate term used in the family sticks a racial epithet in front of that name — lives with her husband Elroy in a cabin on the old plantation. 'Mary': Slave drama provokes without much truth 2011-02-15T03:12:57Z The object of his love is MacClure, a handsome army officer played by Graydon Gould who has just arrived at the plantation. Newly unearthed ITV play could be first ever gay television drama 2013-03-16T00:01:20Z In that chapter, the infamous massacre of the banana plantation workers is denied by the official versions of history and soon forgotten. In Colson Whitehead’s Latest, the Underground Railroad Is More Than a Metaphor 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Also, I see signs of improvement every meal at Cane, its name an homage to the African slaves who worked Trinidad’s sugar plantations and to the rum derived from sugar cane. Review | Cane doubles the pleasures with chef-driven Caribbean cooking 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z A proper Englishwoman, Ms. Newman did not fancy such a get-up; as a result, the wives wear long dresses that suggest 20th-century plantation belles. Bryan Forbes, ‘Stepford Wives’ Director, Dies at 86 2013-05-09T00:42:58Z This meant an increased need for sugar, and for cheap labor on colonial sugar cane plantations. London’s Legacy in the Slave Trade 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Though they could have entered academia, the pair was inspired by Krach’s agroecology research on Costa Rican tropical tree plantations growing right next to rainforests without harming them. Growing California rice and almonds against the grain 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z They are men of our current time who live on the streets of a city not unlike Chicago, yet also on a pre-Emancipation plantation and in Egypt more than three millenniums ago. Review: ‘Pass Over’ Comes to Broadway, in Horror and Hope 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z Le Jardin Malanga Hotel in Trois-Rivières has two double bedrooms and three triple bedrooms in its renovated main house, a 1927 restored plantation house, and three cottages with two bedrooms each. A Return to Guadeloupe: Tropical Life, French-Style 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z No hint that, at the time Post confected this idyll, African slaves were working 20-hour days on plantations and indigenous peoples were being exterminated. An Enthralling Show of Afro-Atlantic History Illuminates Brazil 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Dramatic and at times violent conflicts have erupted over monuments to Confederate soldiers, institutions named after slave traders and plantation owners, the history lessons children learn and the books they read. A Thanksgiving History Lesson in a Handful of Corn 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Gbessa joins forces with two other renegades: a magically invincible plantation runaway from Virginia and a Jamaican maroon with the ability to disappear. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z And other historic plantations are recasting their exhibits to reflect a crueler truth “beyond the sort of old moonlight-and-magnolia plantation tour,” said Joshua Rothman, chair of the history department at the University of Alabama. For decades they hid Jefferson’s relationship with her. Now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings. 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z It is hard to believe much of anything that happens in FX’s “Kindred,” in either the skimpy, cardboard depiction of plantation life or in the clichéd presentation of modern city life. ‘Kindred’ Review: Octavia Butler Comes to the Screen 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Born on the island of Guadeloupe, Joseph Bologne was the son of an enslaved Senegalese woman and a French plantation owner. ‘Chevalier’ Review: A Black Virtuoso Rocks the Court of Marie Antoinette 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z In 1849, she fled her slave plantation and walked nearly 100 miles north to freedom. How Cynthia Erivo took the US by storm – with a little help from Aretha and Oprah 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z She and a fellow slave make a daring escape from the plantation via the Underground Railroad, which, in Whitehead's telling, is literally a series of below-ground tunnels. Oprah Winfrey picks Colson Whitehead's latest, 'The Undergound Railroad,' for her book club 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z The result is “The Underground Railroad,” an unflinching portrayal of Cora, an enslaved woman who escapes a Georgia plantation and its horrors only to be pursued by an unrelenting bounty hunter. Barry Jenkins on his unflinching epic ‘Underground Railroad’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z World War I had caused a decline in European sugar production, creating a demand that Cuba rushed to fill, with the building of plantations and factories to satisfy the American market. 3 Books That Help Explain American-Cuban Relations 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Each plantation takes a different approach to brewing coffee. Explorer: Coffee Plantations in India Blend History and Hospitality 2010-12-31T19:55:00Z With family lines broken and ancestors diminished to figures on plantation ledgers and Christian names on bills of sale, Black people grieve for forebearers whose recorded lives lack both facts and emotional texture. Review | ‘The Prophets’ reimagines the lives of enslaved people with the epic love story of two men 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z Like this one: "Redheaded plantation owner's daughter defends Atlanta against Union army." Oscars too serious for you? Try our Silly Movie Summary contest 2012-02-24T17:59:07Z The Spanish and Portuguese grab Latin American land, forcing the displaced populations to work themselves to death on the new plantations. TV review: Poor Us – An Animated History of Poverty; Goodnight Britain 2012-11-28T23:31:01Z Most convincingly, Baptist paints a picture of the plantation as a kind of factory that used "torture" and a speed-up "pushing" system to increase the amount of cotton slaves picked. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' looks at the economics of slavery 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Rather, the era Ritz-Carlton is trying to conjure started in 1920s, when Dorado Beach was still a grapefruit and coconut plantation owned by a woman named Clara Livingston. A Ritz Ups the Ante in Puerto Rico 2012-12-12T15:46:52Z “People used to think, ‘Oh, the slaves were down on the plantation.’ Perspective | Jefferson’s Monticello finally gives Sally Hemings her place in presidential history 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Then Ms. Charboneau will shout, “God bless the cook!” and the guests will sweep into the grand dining room of her 1832 plantation house to eat. Thanksgiving Dinner Recipes and Tips from Regina Charboneau 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z There are no benevolent white belles and polite gentlemen in “Emancipation,” no trace of the grotesque plantation fantasies so beloved by old Hollywood. ‘Emancipation’ Review: Will Smith in a Brutal Journey 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Wearing suspenders and a straw hat, Mr. Murdock depicted a swaggering plantation overseer with arrogant movements, for example. Music Review: ?El Cimarr?n? Is Revived at the Theater at St. Catherine of Siena 2010-06-11T22:16:00Z But it’s not so widely known that Chinese laborers were shipped in by Southern plantation owners to replace emancipated slaves after the Civil War. Coming of Age Amid a Limbo of Prejudice and Restriction 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z About half of the slaves died in the rough surf, while the survivors were resold and sent once more to work on Brazil’s sugar plantations. ‘Humble objects’ of a sunken slave ship tell a powerful and emotional story 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z The area’s roots date back to the Civil War when white plantation owners fled Union forces and abandoned their property, slaves included. Savannah, Both Sides 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The patterned panels imagine coded communication between black slaves on American plantations and British textile workers. She Won the Turner Prize. Now She’s Using Her Clout to Help Others. 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z The dark-skinned, stubborn Ana flees the constraints of aristocratic life in Seville for the sugar plantation — Hacienda Los Gemelos — in Puerto Rico, with her husband and his brother, who are identical twins. A Tale Scooped From the Cauldron of History 2011-07-24T17:41:02Z The piece, which had been displayed for decades at an 1820s plantation, was made by a prolific cabinetmaker whose name is not yet known. Antiques: Exploring the Art of Louisiana Furniture 2010-12-10T00:01:00Z June Dey is an African-American man whose superhuman strength allows him to escape slavery and the Virginia plantation where he was raised. In Wayétu Moore’s Ambitious Debut Novel, Liberia Is Reborn 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z Alternatively, you can use wool bracken and also coconut coir, but it has a few question marks against it because it's a waste material from coconut plantations, grown mostly in India and Sri Lanka. How to garden through climate change 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z Last year's "12 Years a Slave," based on freeman Solomon Northup's antebellum memoir of his kidnapping and years spent on Southern plantations, used a life to make the abstraction of slavery concrete. Biopics find new life at the Oscars and beyond 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z But how we present this story is always undergoing revision and refinement, as four new books — from a closer view of plantation life to a visually rich depiction of the history of hip-hop — show. Picture Books That Bring Black Heroes to Life 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z The lodge will arrange chimpanzee treks, tours of local coffee plantations and visits to the gorilla orphanage. A trek to gorilla country in the Congo The Pulitzer Prize-winning jewel of the plantation fiction genre, this was Americans’ second all-time favorite book behind the Bible, according to a 2014 Harris Poll. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z The Popes Creek plantation, where George was born, is today run by the National Park Service. Washington slept here — no, really 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Well, rum cream, consumed at Habitation Clément, a plantation with botanical gardens, a Creole house and an art gallery. On a Caribbean Rum Trail 2014-02-21T19:02:44Z And however maudlin and dishonest this little drama may be, it delights the book clubs, party givers and sorority girls who eagerly treat the plantation as a piece of living history. Books of The Times: ‘The Cutting Season’ by Attica Locke 2012-09-05T21:12:22Z In this show alone, we hear from plantation slaves, Las Vegas wiseguys, Irish priests, even a Syrian, among countless others who are often just floating characters that come from God knows where. Comedy gold: Lenny Bruce's Performance 2013-06-21T14:51:12Z Some sections read like folk tales or adventure novels, while those set in Virginia serve up reheated plantation melodrama. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Among Jamaica’s plantation owners, Lilly was of the “poorer sort”; he was the son of a carpenter, and, as an adult, was plagued with a persistent fever. An Intimate History of the British Empire 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The island then became part of the slave plantation economy until the Civil War. 12 Artists On: Climate Change 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z It was transformative for creating affordable housing out of the existing plantation structure. In ‘Cane Fire,’ When an Image of Paradise Creates Loss 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z The tradition on the island dates to the 18th century, originating with French plantation owners and later adopted by emancipated slaves who infused it with African-derived traditions. Soka Tribe classes turn the explosive energy of Carnival into a fitness routine 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z One, called “The Mistress of Evergreen Plantation,” was a collection of letters that Rachel O’Connor wrote over her lifetime as the sole owner of a sugar plantation in Louisiana. Keris Salmon’s haunting canvases pair plantation photos and slave diaries 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z Driven by anger at her mother, who ran from the plantation when Cora was a child, Cora doesn’t waste time imagining the railroad’s miraculous terminus. To Understand America, You Have to Ride the Railroad 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Moses and Kitch specifically recall not only Beckett’s vaudevillians, but also enslaved African-Americans working a plantation and even biblical Israelites escaping from Egypt. Review: Waiting for Po-Po in a Searing ‘Pass Over’ 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Their company began growing coffee rather than cane on the land in the 1980s, as sugar plantations across the Hawaiian Islands were closed down. Break away from Kauai’s beaches and take your taste buds on a tour 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z “The golden age of the plantation culture coincided with the Enlightenment, the birth of the industrial revolution and scientific racism,” he says. They fed the civil rights movement. Now are black-owned barbecue joints dying? 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z When Amazon was filming “The Underground Railroad,” a series about enslaved workers fleeing a cotton plantation, the therapist Kim Whyte was on set for much of the shoot. A New Must-Have for TV and Movie Shoots: Therapists 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z We also see, through Koji’s memories of the fight to unionize the plantations, that some forms of modernization aren’t simply niceties. Review | In Gail Tsukiyama’s ‘The Color of Air,’ characters reel in the wake of the Mauna Loa volcanic eruption 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z A documentary about 12 Nicaraguan banana plantation workers who sue the giant Dole Food Company for using a banned pesticide known to cause sterility Tweet this Film Documentary Culture Series Trailer park More video Bananas!* Film trailer: Bananas!* 2010-04-06T08:35:00Z The museum at Poplar Forest, Jefferson’s other plantation, in Lynchburg, Va., has invited both of them to appear on a panel. Henry Wiencek’s ‘Master of the Mountain’ Irks Historians 2012-11-26T22:31:39Z The book, published in 1824, was intended to help young wives run a plantation kitchen. Food Scholar, Folk Singer, Blunt Speaker: The Many Lives of Leni Sorensen 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z George Washington retired to his plantation, as did Thomas Jefferson, who also spent his time building up the University of Virginia. What kind of ex-president will Barack Obama be? 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Hoffman is also enthusiastic about Frank Walter, shown with the New York–based gallery Hirschl & Adler Modern, who documented life on sugar plantations in Antigua. Preview works from New York’s Outsider Art Fair 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z In the plantation church, life-size ceramic statues of slave children have been posted amid the pews to represent residents of past generations. Antiques: A Restored Louisiana Plantation and Its Lifeblood 2013-07-25T18:56:22Z She also traces the family’s ancestry back to a North Carolina slave plantation, telling a vivid and devastating story of American inequality. 11 New Works of Nonfiction to Read This Season 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z In the 2012 movie ‘Django Unchained’' Tarantino had a former slave destroy a plantation, murdering its owner and employees before blowing up the estate itself.” Tarantino: "Golden Girls" helped my career 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z The second show will be Saturday in Port-au-Prince at a concert venue that was once a sugarcane plantation. Branford Marsalis headlines jazz festival in Haiti 2013-01-18T22:56:14Z Logging swallowed big swathes of the savanna; cotton and sugar plantations chewed up the leftovers. Every Plant Has a Story. You Just Need to Dig. 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z “I was doing my research on this actual plantation and thought, ‘This is kind of weird that I’m doing this in a research-based situation when we have a real farm,’” Krach says. Growing California rice and almonds against the grain 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z But they were not Yankees; they came from the south where, a long time ago, they'd owned plantations. Lorrie Moore 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z Across the ocean, we find June Dey, fleeing a Virginia plantation overseer, discovering his own unusual physical strength. Read this next: 6 new novels coming in September you won't want to miss 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z The pursuit of these luxuries, Kilomba noted, brought catastrophe: plantations, monoculture, enslavement. Grada Kilomba’s Rituals of Resistance 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z In Season 3, Jesse brings his ex-girlfriend and an Irish vampire to the Louisiana plantation where he was raised, where more strangeness awaits. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Parts Unknown’ and the BET Awards 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z I lived an idyllic life in a coconut plantation. After Harvard, Dispatches of Adulthood 2012-04-13T22:21:53Z Cumberbatch is in line to play a plantation owner who buys Ejiofor's character and is won over by his engineering skills. Benedict Cumberbatch to appear in Steve McQueen's Twelve Years a Slave 2012-06-01T11:24:12Z The photograph visualizes the now silent and unpopulated landscape of what was once 350 plantations along the west banks of the Mississippi River. In Louisiana, a Haunting Landscape 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Taken together, their books, both from 2013, connected the dots among plantation labor, London bankers and Northeast factories, and the creation of Ivy League universities. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' Follows the Money of Slavery 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Boone Hall Plantation in Charleston, S.C., which declined emails and phone calls for comment, also has, according to their website, a “critically acclaimed” exhibit on the slaves who occupied the plantation grounds. Disturbing wedding trend: Getting married at a plantation 2014-01-05T16:00:00Z The result is that rather than reviving cleared rain forest land with new rain forest, Panama is growing massive teak plantations. Down and Out and Ripe for an Economist to Study 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Only they could discern the beautiful plot against the plantation that she waged each and every day. An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z She is an artist who draws connections; her first museum solo, recently at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, explored migration, tobacco plantations, prison farms and tango. Kandis Williams Envisions Dancing Bodies Without Borders 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z It used to be a plantation and a milltown, with a waterfall at its center that ran a grain and textile mill. Loretta Lynn Mines a Legacy of Heartaches and High Notes 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z According to the plantation’s website, the slave quarters now house “an award-winning 45-minute program in African-American history” that recounts slavery through Civil Rights with $8 admission for adults. Disturbing wedding trend: Getting married at a plantation 2014-01-05T16:00:00Z In the 2012 movie "Django Unchained"Tarantino had a former slave destroy a plantation, murdering its owner and employees before blowing up the estate itself. The problematic history in Tarantino 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z The slaves stand around the Louisiana plantation house wearing tattered calico and head scarves. Books of The Times: ‘The Cutting Season’ by Attica Locke 2012-09-05T21:12:22Z By “many stripes,” the Louisiana plantation owner tells his slaves, Jesus meant 40 or 50. 12 Years a Slave: An Unflinching Take on the Great American Shame 2013-10-18T17:07:02Z He has been forcibly enlisted to work on behalf of the rebel cause, to the displeasure of the plantation’s owner. ‘Emancipation’ Review: Will Smith in a Brutal Journey 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The last time I was in Africa, I saw a plantation overseer getting on a small plane with a bullwhip, on his way to someplace growing cotton. Alice Walker and Colm Toibin, and Their Trail of Words 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Historical records in Virginia show that there were once two large plantations in the area that enslaved people, North Wales and Meadow Farm. She found her father’s segregated schoolhouse decaying in the Va. woods. Now, it is on the way to being saved. 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z In the 1800s, African Americans escaped slavery from nearby plantations and formed maroon communities deep in the wetlands, where few people venture. At South Carolina’s only national park, paddle through some of the country’s oldest trees 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z The Whitney Plantation, first opened to the public in 2014, is the only plantation museum in Louisiana exclusively focused on the history of enslaved people. From 1619 to the Year 3020, and Every Podcast in Between 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z The novel’s first chapter describes the many times Cora’s grandmother Ajarry changes hands, from her capture in Africa to her death on a Georgia plantation. To Understand America, You Have to Ride the Railroad 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Zakariya’s childhood memories are largely peaceful: rubber plantations and hikes up mountains to catch glimpses of the sea and hunt for birds. A Poet's Return Home to Thailand's Violent South 2010-10-20T16:28:00Z A Black woman returns to her North Carolina hometown to attend her best friend’s plantation wedding and is forced to confront the haunted, oppressive history of the land that she left behind. Newly Published, From Octogenarian Marathoners to a Haunted Southern Plantation Wedding 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z He collapsed the history of coerced miscegenation going back to the plantation into a raw metaphor. At His Moment of Triumph, Arthur Jafa Is Looking for Trouble 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z But the South relied on slave labor for its huge cotton, sugar and rice plantations. When the guns of the Civil War fell silent 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z There are complications when the conjurers, who are losing their hold on the uneducated laborers of the plantation, capture Treemonisha and threaten to throw her into a nest of wasps. Critic?s Notebook: For City Opera, Spare Show May Signal Future 2011-06-07T22:00:29Z Mr. Irby also chose an inspired variety of material, including the plantation spiritual “Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow,” which the saxophonist Ted Nash reimagined as a Third Stream excursion. It’s Beginning to Sound a Lot Like Christmas 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Kirkham carried his own petition to the provincial capital of San Antonio de Béxar for the return of three enslaved people who had escaped from his plantation the year before. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z In the years before the Civil War, historians tell us, plantation wealth made this part of the Mississippi home to perhaps two-thirds of the country’s millionaires. The American Queen Paddle-Wheeler Cruises on the Mississippi 2012-06-01T19:22:58Z While President Donald Trump laments the destruction of Confederate history, one of his hotel chains may celebrate it with a destination stylized after a Southern plantation. Trump-brand hotel to be styled after a Southern antebellum plantation 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z A few feet away was Don Johnson telling reporters about the joys of being cast as a plantation owner. Scene City: ‘Django Unchained’ Is Screened, as a Star Audience Gasps 2012-12-12T21:26:41Z What does antebellum plantation life have to do with North Korea, where three generations of rulers — grandfather, father and now the young son, Kim Jong Un — have been worshipped as omniscient? Reading Gone with the Wind in Pyongyang 2012-10-25T17:00:12Z Mr. Northup, who lived in New York, was abducted and sold into slavery, spending years on Southern plantations before ultimately winning his freedom. ‘12 Years’ Enjoys a Seemingly Narrow Victory 2014-03-03T21:12:52Z Farther down the road, there are dairy cows grazing on pastureland, soaring plantations of hardwood trees and fields of cassava. The world's biggest chocolate-maker says we're running out of chocolate 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z I was driving through an olive plantation, and as the trees that lined the road rushed past, I caught glimpses of the groves moving repeatedly into perfect alignment, flickering like a silent film. Mark Miodownik: an obsession with materials 2013-05-24T15:53:00Z Her latest novel, The Cutting Season, is set on a Louisiana plantation, where race and history are just beneath the surface. Guardian Books podcast: Crime fiction with Agatha Christie and Attica Locke 2012-09-28T13:05:43Z Rosedown’s opulence is over the top, an example of what money and status could command at a cotton plantation before the Civil War. Following Audubon?s Footsteps in Louisiana 2010-04-15T21:58:00Z With the exception of Gbadebo — who works with clay gathered from the cemetery of the South Carolina plantation where members of her family were enslaved — these artists are current art-market favorites, which lacks curatorial initiative. The Magnificent Poem Jars of David Drake, Center Stage at the Met 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z The name, Mo’ Bettahs, is Hawaiian Pidgin, a Creole language from the plantations. Hawaiian Food Is Flourishing … in Utah? 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z “Formation,” the work’s most-discussed power anthem, calls on black women to stand together and features the singer in an abandoned plantation and atop a sinking police car, among other memorable images. How the end of the MTV era led to a music video renaissance 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z “I read the book and the script, and both just blew my mind,” says Aaron Pierre, who plays Caesar, the enslaved man who leads Cora from a Georgia plantation to the Underground Railroad. Filming ‘The Underground Railroad’ was grueling. But the cast grasped ‘the weight of what we were doing.’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z Turner took careful note of JR Cozens's prints, while he based his painting of the eruption of Mount Soufrière on St Vincent on a sketch by a local sugar plantation owner. Volcanic art 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z We stood in a banana plantation overlooking the coastline and heard the strains of music coming from our starting point. Spice and everything nice on Grenada And although she was forbidden from entering the main plantation house when she was the cook’s child, she now runs the estate from her office there. Books of The Times: ‘The Cutting Season’ by Attica Locke 2012-09-05T21:12:22Z India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Kenya are countries where the British "set up massive tea plantations for the explicit purpose of getting tea . . . to fuel their national consumption," Canning continues. An exploration of the wonderful world of teas 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Eliot was given the nickname Possum by Ezra Pound, who got it from “Uncle Remus,” Joel Chandler Harris’s compilation of plantation folktales, which was published in 1880. The Improbable Insanity of “Cats” 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Towns founded to serve plantation workers now serve shoppers, and plantation grounds now cater to myriad leisurely pursuits. 36 Hours in Kauai, Hawaii 2013-12-05T17:25:08Z A highlight of any trip to Cuba is a horse ride in Vinales, which includes breathtaking scenery and visits to a tobacco farm and a coffee plantation. Cuba beyond Havana: a colonial town and tobacco farms 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z In 1998, for instance, Michael Gallagher, a Cincinnati Enquirer reporter, pleaded guilty to hacking into voice mails at Chiquita Brands as part of an investigation alleging multiple company misdeeds at Central American plantations. Chicago News Cooperative: Hildy Johnson Would Have Happily Hacked 2011-07-24T07:30:30Z Sarah and William are two of the numerous spirits said to haunt the grounds of the plantation, which offers daytime and nighttime tours. Like a good scare? Here are five haunted hotels with stories fit for true-crime files. 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Even though the UN Food and Agriculture Organization provides guidance on the use of pesticides by legacy British tea companies like Finlays, "Pesticides are regularly used on tea plantations," says Huq. An exploration of the wonderful world of teas 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z However, they found the conditions for plantation workers appalling and bought the operation. Innovative fashion designers lead the way on sustainability 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z The island’s income is mainly from tourism and banana plantations. Volcano in Canary Islands shows no signs of eruption ending 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z When he is 21, Green boldly travels to Trinidad for a year, to work as a supervisor on a sugar plantation. This Novel Revisits a Power Broker Who Trod Lightly and Left a Big Footprint 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Maunsell White, an Irish immigrant, slave owner and entrepreneur, operated a large plantation in Louisiana. How did hot sauce get in so many African Americans’ bags, anyway? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z At that time, enslaved peoples from Africa, brought to work on Franco-Mauritian coconut plantations, became the first settlers in the Chagos Archipelago. “24′s” phony history exposed: The dark history of a CIA “black site” 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Cora, Whitehead’s heroine, escapes a brutal plantation in Georgia and takes temporary shelter in an attic in North Carolina. The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z The artist first became interested in the material after seeing large-scale plantations in Tanzania. To Illuminate History, an Artist Turns Out the Lights 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z In Japan, Waffles and Mochi visit a mushroom farm; in the high mountains of Peru, they cook potatoes in a huatia; in Savannah, Georgia, they learn about rice plantations during chattel slavery. Netflix's zany "Waffles + Mochi" is helping heal my eating disorder 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z Black women were forced to breed on plantations with mates not of their choosing to produce children who would be considered the property of their enslavers. bell hooks vs. Beyoncé: What this feminist scholarly critique gets wrong about “Lemonade” and liberation 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z It came under French rule in the 1600s, when colonists brought slaves to establish sugar plantations. On Guadeloupe, beautiful beaches — with a backstory 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z "What did you study, Tim? What have you unearthed in a world where many Black people can trace their American roots back to the plantations where their families were held hostage?" The lost art of not having an opinion on everything 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z Most of the real estate we survey in “Neighboring Sounds” belongs to Francisco, who also owns a grand, crumbling sugar plantation in the countryside. Movie Review: ‘Neighboring Sounds,’ Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho 2012-08-23T22:30:30Z Unabridged editions don’t end with his departure from the island but go on to relate Crusoe’s efforts to reclaim his plantation and the profits owed to him, as well as his eventual marriage in England. Review | Three hundred years later, does ‘Robinson Crusoe’ hold up as a classic? 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z The photographer Elizabeth Moran grew up in a farmhouse on an old plantation on Cherry Road in Memphis. Photographing the Invisible 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z “Lemonade” feels like a cultural rebuke on behalf of lots of aching women, whether they’re standing on that plantation porch, watching from their living rooms, or running for president. Beyoncé Unearths Pain and Lets It Flow in ‘Lemonade’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z And though the Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery in Mississippi in 1863, the enslaved population at the Polk plantation didn’t learn of their freedom for another two years. The First Lady Who Begat Phyllis Schlafly, Nancy Reagan and Ivanka Trump? 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z The property, which also is an organic tea plantation, partly opened in December, with the rest scheduled for completion by October. Overnighter: Moganshan, China, a Lofty Retreat from Sweltering Shanghai 2012-04-13T17:32:13Z We clipped our carabiners to a safety line as the balloon descended to a few hundred feet, and sailed toward a date palm plantation owned by Sheikh Butti. In Dubai, Flying With the Falcons 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z The two set off as bounty hunters, rounding up robbers and cattle rustlers before turning their attention to brutal plantation owners in America's Deep South. Quentin Tarantino unchains America's tormented past in "Django" 2012-12-24T13:08:23Z There, with creative collaborator Cynthia Cynn, he set about enabling a group of oil palm plantation workers to make a documentary. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z There are luxurious furnishings from the plantation period, including a Japanned cabinet from Europe and one of the oldest known pieces of Virginia-made furniture — a magnificent court cupboard. In Jamestown, a new exhibition pays homage to the women history overlooked 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z The story opens with calamity: During a terrible storm on the Lockless plantation, a horse-drawn carriage crashes off a bridge into an icy river. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Before Django Freeman, there was an escaped slave named Jackson Freeman who desired to purchase his family’s freedom from a malevolent plantation owner. Quentin Tarantino faces $100m copyright claim over Django Unchained 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Rutherford plays the sister who, early in the film, begs to be allowed to go to the ball at Ashley Wilkes' plantation. "Gone With the Wind" actress Ann Rutherford dies 2012-06-12T14:54:49Z Still, the production here pales to the output on corporate coffee plantations. A Journey to Colombia’s Coffee Belt 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z I have to confess that I’ve long had a special affection for small, pretty New Iberia, with its plantation homes and first-rate Bayou Teche Museum next to the Art Deco Evangeline Theater. Literary Louisiana 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Equally incompetent and greedy, the administrators appointed by President William McKinley cut deals with plantation owners that, as Vera describes it, “reestablished Puerto Rico’s centuries-old feudal society.” Review | ‘The Taste of Sugar’ offers a thrilling look at Puerto Rico’s history through the tale of one couple’s struggle to survive 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Yet the worlds and themes of both reinforce a nostalgia for a plantation in the Reconstruction era, with its idyllic beauty and “bodacious” critters, its simple life lessons, and its harmonious racial hierarchies. Song of the South: the difficult legacy of Disney's most shocking movie 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z This week, the owner of a sugar plantation is found with a machete in his back. TV highlights 08/01/2013 2013-01-07T20:00:02Z You can tap into culture by exploring what’s grown or produced in the region, like going into the Blue Mountains in Jamaica to visit a coffee plantation or a rum distillery in Barbados. Katie Lee On Culture and Cuisine at the Beach 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z It is woodland that grows through our history and culture, and woodland – not monocrop timber plantations – that we should value and guard as jealously as any part of our private and shared cultural heritage. Monty Don: 'Why we must save our woodlands' 2011-01-30T00:06:27Z Shooting at actual plantation sites, the filmmakers frequently found the great houses still standing but a lot of the “outbuildings,” the smaller structures, are gone or crumbling. The Carpetbagger: Below the Line: Production Design on ‘12 Years a Slave’ 2014-01-22T20:22:50Z Last August, Tteach installed a plaque in Bristol Cathedral honoring the life of Yanya’s great-great-great grandfather John Isaac Daniel, who was born enslaved to a British family that owned sugar plantations in Barbados. Nilüfer Yanya’s Music Is a Family Affair 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Along the Selangor River in Malaysia, it’s the replacement of native mangrove swamps with oil palm plantations or shrimp farms. Humans love fireflies, but we haven’t made life easy for them 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z He's also an 18th century white plantation owner in life who, after he was made a vampire, allows his lover Lestat de Lioncourt to feed on the enslaved people forced to work his land. Changing "Interview with the Vampire" made it more alluring while staying true to its spirit 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Its atmosphere of perfumed longing for a past that included Black servants working on white people’s crumbling plantations made it singularly vulnerable, too. Review: An Audio ‘Streetcar,’ Not Yet Reaching Its Destination 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z Ejiofor said filming on the plantations felt like "dancing with ghosts... present right in the soil". Ejiofor 'hesitant' on 12 Years role 2014-01-03T06:56:56Z From the boat, I couldn’t see the plantation ruins through the thick vegetation. In the U.S. Virgin Islands, returning to a changed but resilient St. John 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Mr. King was making about $5 a day on the plantation. B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The legacy of six centuries of Muslim occupation did not vanish overnight – nor indeed did the extensive plantations of almond trees brought from the Jordan valley. 20 best Mediterranean recipes: part 2 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z The plantations of the South — before and after the Civil War — were worked by women as well as men. Is There a Double Standard for Survivors of Boko Haram? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z It follows a young slave named Cora who works in a Georgia cotton plantation about 10 years before the Civil War. Oprah Winfrey picks Colson Whitehead's latest, 'The Undergound Railroad,' for her book club 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z The rolling farmland in this northwest corner of Georgia has never lent itself to the plantation agriculture that once dominated other parts of the South. Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends? 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z His Big Daddy, the bullying, dying plantation owner in a 1990 Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” brought him a Tony Award for best featured actor in a play. Charles Durning, Prolific Character Actor, Dies at 89 2012-12-25T09:19:03Z That life-or-death drama on the plantation provides the novel’s most terrifying moments, which could easily have rendered the other sections slight by comparison. Review | ‘The Revisioners’ reminds us of slavery’s long reach, through the generations 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z The matriarch of a Hani ethnic group family, she oversees the operation of the family’s tea plantation and packing plant, which still uses age-old methods to pick, roast, dry, steam and pack the precious tea. A scenic spin through the hills of southwestern China 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z She said beyond the beauty of Boone Hall, a part of her wedding dream since high school, “we went there to honor those who built the plantation.” Despite Everything, People Still Have Weddings at ‘Plantation’ Sites 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in Virginia, in 1831, going from plantation to plantation to free slaves and recruit them. New York first-night moviegoers shrug off The Birth of a Nation controversy 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z Today, the plantation house is still tucked away in a corner of the Travaasa, which uses it for group events. Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawaii 2012-11-30T19:41:37Z Insurance companies grew rich protecting the Southern plantocracy’s slave investments, and banks extended credit to plantations as they spread to the south and west. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Kasiama’s father, a palm-oil plantation worker, died of a hernia when his son was young, and Mr. Kasiama supported his family doing handyman jobs and hairdressing in addition to the dangerous tree harvesting. Chocolate Sculpture, With a Bitter Taste of Colonialism 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Too, one of Washington’s own plantations lay in the direction he proposed, and it needed a road. An excerpt from William Hogeland’s “Autumn of the Black Snake” excerpt 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Wade in the Water is a legendary and much-covered baptism hymn that became a trigger to escape from slavery when sung on the plantation. Readers recommend: songs about bravery – results 2012-08-30T08:31:39Z But otherwise, visitors steered clear of Paia’s narrow main streets and roads, all lined with tropical plantation houses — small, wooden and painted in adorable Lucky Charms colors. | Next Stop: In Paia, Where Wetsuits and Art Meet in Maui 2010-05-14T21:12:00Z Without slave labor, the plantation was no longer successful, and the Collins family sold it at auction in 1867. ‘Freedom for All’ exhibit goes to NC plantation 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z We pushed through the compressed beehive of Hatton, past Castlereagh Lake and into the heart of tea plantation country, a world of verdant staircases occupied by laborers with heavy bags across their shoulders. In the Hills of Sri Lanka’s Tea Country 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z His 10-minute song "Lucille," released on a 1968 album of the same name, tells the story of the prized guitar, and also chronicles his own rise from Mississippi plantation worker to "King of the Blues." B.B. King dies: A fire, a fight and a lifetime with his guitar Lucille 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Both Bonny and Read had been raised as boys – Read serving as a footsoldier in Flanders in her teenage years, and Bonny living on her Irish father's plantation in South Carolina. Anne of the Indies forces facts to walk the plank 2012-07-26T07:53:00Z She notes that, not long after the Revolutionary War, mid-Atlantic States like Virginia and North Carolina had already begun economic transition away from slave-based plantation economics. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z Many of their mothers were killed when they strayed into agricultural plantations in search of food. Orangutans to watch film 'Born to be Wild' 2012-02-21T12:46:04Z But the passenger, Hiram’s white half brother and the heir apparent of the plantation, drowns. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z By linking the wealthy international art world directly to an impoverished African plantation, Martens demonstrates how fortunes across the globe are intertwined. With a New Museum, African Workers Take Control of Their Destiny 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Remembering the moment she arrived on that plantation set, she becomes visibly emotional. Horrors of slavery at center of Janelle Monae’s ‘Antebellum’ 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Yet there is nothing matter-of-fact, Baumgartner argues, about the conflict between white plantation owners, perpetually hungry for fresh cotton land in the Southwest, and the antislavery laws of the Mexican republic. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z He started in the pineapple cannery and drove a truck for the sugar plantations, and then, when tourism and Hollywood were coming in, he was an extra crew member. In ‘Cane Fire,’ When an Image of Paradise Creates Loss 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z The school was built on a former plantation, where enslaved people worked the land, and, more than 140 years later, the university has educated tens of thousands of mostly African American students. What a $50 Million Donation Did for One H.B.C.U. 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z Hapa was originally a derogatory term used to describe mixed-raced children of Hawaiian women and plantation guest workers from China, Korea and the Philippines. From "Aquaman" to "Avatar," ocean-centric blockbusters are eroding our terrestrial bias 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z The group realized that some vendors use decorative words like “breathtaking” to describe plantations — venues that evoke painful imagery for African Americans. Wedding vendors romanticize slave plantations. The Knot and Pinterest will no longer promote them. 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Winding through the misty jungle of mango and coconut trees, the tour stops at a local chocolate plantation, where you sample chocolate from each stage of production. The best of Cuba, beyond Havana: readers’ travel tips 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z “A plantation house, but not overwhelming,” Foster says. Home & Design: History helps breathe life into a Georgian manor in Virginia Dozens of towns, plantations and public buildings were looted and burned. Lies I learned as a Southerner: Racism, the Confederate flag and why so many white Southerners revere a symbol of hatred 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z The episodes of her career are accompanied by Jacob Lawrence’s Great Migration series, Kara Walker’s plantation silhouettes and Gordon Parks’s photographs of segregation. Analysis | Toni Morrison has kept the public at arm’s length. Now she’s letting people in on her terms. 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z The bodies are those of banana plantation workers who went on strike or protested exploitative labor practices. Artist's simulated banana grove is a stinking indictment of American corporate greed 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z While it’s unclear if he was a regular attendee, Hamilton almost certainly witnessed some of these brutal transactions; his boyhood exposure to plantation culture left him with a lifelong antipathy toward slavery. The West Indian Island That Shaped Alexander Hamilton 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z It is the culmination of decades of work of a descendant of one of the former plantation owners working with a descendant of one of the former slaves of the Sotterley Plantation in Hollywood, Md. Descendants of slaves and slave owners discover legacy of Maryland’s Sotterley Plantation 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z We would visit a nutmeg processing center, a cocoa plantation and a chocolate factory. Spice and everything nice on Grenada The central character is a young woman named Cora, enslaved on a Georgia cotton plantation owned by Mr. Randall, a wealthy twin with a gruesome turn of mind. Oprah’s book club pick: ‘The Underground Railroad,’ by Colson Whitehead 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Late in the summer of 1841, Lincoln visited Speed’s Louisville plantation. Did Abraham Lincoln’s bromance alter the course of American history? 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z She is the plantation’s manager, responsible for tasks like making sure there are no tire tracks near the perfectly-preserved slave quarters; those humble shacks are now immortalized in coffee table books, after all. Books of The Times: ‘The Cutting Season’ by Attica Locke 2012-09-05T21:12:22Z I confess that I had Bush cast more in the role of the Calvin Candie-ish plantation owner, smirking from his veranda while the field hands do the work "Yeah," says Foxx. Jamie Foxx: 'Django Unchained is supposed to make you angry' 2013-01-17T15:45:00Z At one point, when Nurse is sold off to another plantation, Rawls is determined to find her again. Review | Kevin Powers’s first novel exposed the horrors of the Iraq War. Now he takes on the Civil War. 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z The place had gotten under my skin, and at moments of worry I can cast my mind back to a tour I took of the plantation with the farm manager, Thomas Moles. Virginia’s Lost History 2012-11-22T18:48:32Z In 1845, Daniel Walls, a North Carolina slaveholder, died, leaving his slaves and plantation to his wife, Jane, and their four children. At Ontario Underground Railroad Sites, Farming and Liberty 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The biggest environmental risk from peatlands is if they catch fire, which happened spectacularly in 2015 in Indonesia on land cleared for plantations. Peat moss: Good for plants but bad for the planet? 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z This organic farm on a former plantation accepts volunteers who can commit to a 32-hour workweek for at least a month and who like to sing. Young Farmers Conference at Stone Barns Center 2013-01-03T22:25:03Z The pay was so low and the work was so menial in the Dominican Republic that, as historian Catherine C. Legrand points out, workers left the plantation whenever they could. Uncovering the violent history of the Canadian sugar industry 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z There was something uncanny about pretending to hack sugar cane outside a historic plantation house, just as slaves would have done for real 200 years earlier. Malachi Kirby on remaking Roots: ‘I could feel the pain, hear the screams' 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Photos show the appalling conditions endured by workers at a nearby banana plantation that led to a 1928 strike and the massacre of thousands. Mourning and memories in Garcia Marquez's languid hometown 2014-04-19T08:02:58Z The results are an exuberant hodgepodge of genres, including an action thriller, a samurai fantasy epic and an astonishing melodrama of race, passion and family honor set on a 19th-century plantation. Critic?s Notebook: New Directors/New Films at the Film Society of Lincoln Center 2012-03-20T22:30:26Z In the film, locals explain that while sugar plantation workers once organized unions, their descendants now break their backs to fuel Kauai’s tourist and real estate industries. ‘Cane Fire’ Review: Here Am I, Your Plundered Island 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z The film covers all of the important details of Washington's life as it follows him from his early years as an ambitious British military officer and plantation aristocrat through his leadership in the Revolutionary War. Washington would have hated Trump 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z Ella possesses an agreeable scruffiness, the tea plantations and noble birch trees sharing the landscape with a host of ramshackle restaurants and guesthouses. In the Hills of Sri Lanka’s Tea Country 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z She edited two of his books, including his 1988 "Somerset Homecoming," the story of a black woman who helped save the plantation where her ancestors had been slaves. New books explore Jackie's other life _ as editor 2010-12-16T21:32:09Z They led a revolt against their owners and ran away off various plantations around the island and started a new development of their own in the mountains. Don’t Ask Shaggy to Touch the Mic at a Wedding 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z The game plan of Lincolnomics was to grow a prosperous middle class, not to enrich owners of factories and plantations. How Lincoln favored the middle class over the wealthy 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z “I decided I would make an effort, however inadequate and personal, to face the plantations, to reckon with them rather than ignore their realities,” Ball writes. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Jack Kerouac to Black Lives Matter 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z It’s true that Otis the Greek was the boss of these black acts, but he didn’t act like a plantation massah. Johnny Otis, the Greek Godfather of R&B, Dies at 90 2012-01-19T22:30:12Z Laos cleared villages to provide land not only for the concession but also for the nearby rubber plantations and tobacco-processing plants that have lured Chinese investment. Bungle In The Jungle 2011-07-27T22:00:00Z He routinely sundered slaves’ families if selling a slave was expedient, and by 1860, she wrote, “he had broken up every family but one” on his Arlington plantation. Elizabeth Brown Pryor, Biographer of Clara Barton and Robert E. Lee, Dies at 64 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Known as the "Last Railroad in the West Indies," the train used to be used to transport sugar cane from the plantations to the factory. How I overcame my fears as a fat traveler and fell in love with cruises 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z In such a situation, he said, biomass-based SAF could actually have a negative impact by promoting the clearing of forests for monoculture plantations. Could Air Someday Power Your Flight? Airlines Are Betting on It. 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z It retains the lengthy French plantation sequence without losing too much of the original cut’s momentum. 3 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z These items traveled from plantation to dining room via the Atlantic trade, and were central to securing the reputation of Virginia's plantation elite. Oppression in the kitchen, delight in the dining room 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z His book about Ms. Washington-Williams, “Dear Senator,” explains how she grew up unable to reveal that her father was a scion of the plantation’s owners and a virulent white supremacist. Books of The Times: ‘Moneywood,’ by William Stadiem 2012-12-24T21:52:46Z Also, I'll never forget, I was working on an exhibition and really wanted to understand slavery through the lens of a plantation. ‘You can’t be a historian of black America without being hopeful,’ says Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Pick up the road south towards Fuencaliente through a gigantic banana plantation to end amid the desolate beauty of the volcanic landscape at the southern tip of the island. 10 great road trips around the world: readers’ tips 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z It includes a display of whips, chains, branding instruments, thumb screws and shackles that were part of the daily regimen of slave torture and discipline on plantations. At Ontario Underground Railroad Sites, Farming and Liberty 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z In the spirit of this opening acknowledgment, Banua-Simon’s version of “Cane Fire” uses his own family history to demonstrate Kauai’s legacy of plantation colonialism. ‘Cane Fire’ Review: Here Am I, Your Plundered Island 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Savoring the earthy, deeply flavored blend, we watched mists drift across the plantation and the verdant, wooded hills of Coorg beyond. Explorer: Coffee Plantations in India Blend History and Hospitality 2010-12-31T19:55:00Z Bright white plantation shutters bring in clean lines and function to both control light and help insulate the windows. A tiny nursery gets a makeover that will grow with the child 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z At the close of this book, I couldn't help remembering the souvenir shops in the showpiece plantation houses. The Cutting Season by Attica Locke – review 2012-09-28T07:00:01Z As the Lehmans grow more ambitious, they start buying and selling cotton from the plantations, making their first fortune on it. Review: In ‘The Lehman Trilogy,’ a Vivid Tale of Profit and Pain 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The radical Liberal prime minister William Gladstone was the son of a major slave plantation owner and much of the centre's noble architecture was built with profits from the trade. Liverpool prepares to mark Slavery Remembrance Day 2012-08-08T06:00:00Z When someone reveals their secret, the repercussions aren’t just from above, and the fallout tests their Mississippi plantation community. 10 books to read in January 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z To get there, hop on the train that rattles past rain forests, tea plantations and elephant orphanages. Next Stop: In Postwar Sri Lanka, Beaches, Temples and Military Checkpoints 2010-03-12T02:50:00Z The region’s plantation monocultures in cotton and sugar made regular use of imprisoned former slaves, including women. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z The Hubbard brothers, Ben and Oscar, even boast to a new business partner about their cleverness in "taking over" by marriage the plantation of Oscar's genteel, formerly aristocratic wife, Birdie. Review: Timeless greed stars in 'The Little Foxes' 2010-09-22T19:44:00Z That stage persona also sometimes angered younger African Americans, who accused him of clowning and even acting like a “plantation character.” Louis Armstrong’s museum has gone silent, but ‘Pops’ is still talking 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z The $57 fee also includes breakfast and the entrance fee to the Kintamani area, and may provide a stop at a coffee plantation afterward. In Bali, hiking a volcano to greet the sun 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Unlike Carolina Gold, the versatile rice that until the Civil War was America’s primary rice crop, the hill rice hadn’t made Lowcountry plantation owners rich off the backs of slaves. Finding a Lost Strain of Rice, and Clues to Slave Cooking 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z In “The Bell Rang” Ransome has given us a bittersweet slice of plantation life, one in which innocence, familial love and safety are juxtaposed with pain, loss and the resilience of the enslaved. Picture Books That Bring Black Heroes to Life 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z After several panicked moments, we backed into a small turnoff, then floored and coaxed it to the plantation’s parking lot, as it belched smoke. A Return to Guadeloupe: Tropical Life, French-Style 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z This summer, to offer an even better sense of what the plantation looked like in Monroe’s day, Highland introduced a tour using enhanced-reality glasses. If you don’t have time to absorb Jefferson’s Monticello, head to Monroe’s Highland 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z In a series of small collages, she frames historical images of enslaved people and plantation workers within advertisements for cruise lines. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z It depicts a father and his two sons, descendants of African plantation slaves and New World natives, who were leaders of an Afro-Indian community. Art Review: ‘African Presence in Renaissance Europe,’ at Walters Museum 2012-11-08T20:30:57Z Smith this year has been shooting “Emancipation,” with director Antoine Fuqua, a true story about a heavily tortured enslaved man who emancipated himself from a Southern plantation and joined the Union Army in the 1860s. For Will Smith, a break point leads to ‘King Richard’ 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Many of the area’s people descend from slaves who fled cocoa plantations at the mountains’ feet, and older residents still speak a French creole. A Trinidadian Friendship: Derek Walcott and Peter Doig 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Two hours after my tea-slurping seminar, I went for a long stroll through the tea plantation abutting Tientsin. In the Hills of Sri Lanka’s Tea Country 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z In both books, I let the terrible facts—of the plantation, of Jim Crow—speak for themselves. Colson Whitehead on Human Cruelty 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Many of the wedding-venue plantations currently floating around Pinterest have a pronounced history of slavery – which is reduced to a mere line or two in the “history” on some websites. Disturbing wedding trend: Getting married at a plantation 2014-01-05T16:00:00Z “I don’t go to the plantation and say, ‘This is my house,’” he notes. Haile Gerima and his landmark film ‘Sankofa’ are being rediscovered. Finally. 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z So, after our coffee and breakfast, equipped with boxed lunches, we started up the narrow road that skirts the plantation. Explorer: Coffee Plantations in India Blend History and Hospitality 2010-12-31T19:55:00Z Built on a former coconut plantation, the hotel served delicious vegetarian meals that rekindled my 40-year-old memories. A former Peace Corps volunteer returns to his old haunts decades later 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z We were divided up into small groups, each housed in a different plantation. I hosted a plantation retreat. Is it too late to say I’m sorry? 2014-01-20T15:30:00Z Granger’s proclamation asked that enslaved people stay on the plantations and transition to becoming paid employees. Juneteenth: An emancipation celebration 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z Referred to in Tipton-Martin's book, "the Jemima Code" focuses on the descriptions of and codes surrounding Black women who lived and worked in the plantation South, especially the caricature of Aunt Jemima. Behind the Aunt Jemima rebrand is a story of Antebellum romanticization — and concerns about erasure 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z This political drama centers on a white French family that runs a coffee plantation in an unnamed African country in the throes of a civil war. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ and ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z A guard in military uniform directed us past a white plantation house with sweeping balconies and Corinthian columns, through an avenue of live oaks, old and gnarled, and draped with Spanish moss, to the infirmary. My father's bittersweet homecoming: A family visit to the institution that treated him for leprosy 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z The Amsterdam News called “Car Wash” “something Stephen Foster might have written about a day in the life of black folk on an antebellum plantation.” ‘Car Wash,’ a Raunchy 1970s Comedy Brimming With Meta and Mayhem 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z By now, I’ve seen enough versions of “The Cherry Orchard,” Chekhov’s valedictory play, to create my own plantation of those gorgeous, doomed trees. Cate Blanchett and Chekhov, Together on Broadway 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z They glide beside the white fences and green pastures of old plantations, penetrate deep forests, and step above thick swamps. Backroads Guide to Carolina Lowcountry 2011-06-15T13:50:03.910Z But with the popularity of Pinterest, the visual of heterosexual, primarily white couples exchanging kisses on plantation grounds is being neatly folded into the virtual “romantic” wedding aesthetic. Disturbing wedding trend: Getting married at a plantation 2014-01-05T16:00:00Z After Emancipation, she and other slaves leave the plantation, Jane seeking Ohio and absolute freedom. Susan Straight's Great American Novels: 'Fools Crow' and 'The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman' 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z They are among 16,000 artifacts, some made of gold and jade, that Keith and his workers found on his Costa Rican banana plantations. Museum Wants to Return Objects, but There?s a Hitch 2010-12-31T23:11:48Z Set on a plantation in the midst of the Civil War, Donja R. Love’s play explores a clandestine relationship. 13 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z It also prevented the island from being exploited as a plantation colony, as neighboring St. Maarten was. Discover the Magnificent Beaches, Hiking Trails, and Restaurants of St. Barts 2014-01-09T05:00:00Z Christopher becomes intent on rescuing him from his brother’s plantation. Escaping Slavery in a Hot-Air Balloon 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z This fact hasn’t escaped Celeste’s notice, either: “The origins of blues are work songs — literally Black people working on plantations as slaves,” she told The Guardian. Celeste, a Young Singer With an Old Soul, Makes Her Move 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z The Atlantic crossing from Africa – the feared Middle Passage – foreshadowed the greater cruelties of the plantations in the British Caribbean, as Africans were herded on to slave ships and branded with irons. Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart – review 2012-07-20T21:54:01Z Western Europe's appetite for "sweetness" helped fuel the horrific transatlantic trade of enslaved peoples, in which at least 15 million enslaved people from Africa were forced to work on plantations in the Americas. Uncovering the violent history of the Canadian sugar industry 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z When Fiji de-criminalized the desertion of indenture contracts in 1916, it is little wonder that hundreds of workers left the colony's sugar plantations. Uncovering the violent history of the Canadian sugar industry 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z On the largest of them, Chacachacare, glimpse a tall lighthouse, along with remnants of sundry incarnations: cotton plantation, whaling station, leper colony and, during World War Two, a United States Marine base. The Caribbean ?roundup: In the Caribbean, Away From the Crowds 2011-11-11T19:50:00Z Long ago a common refuge for slaves who escaped from the colonial sugar plantations, it was named a Unesco World Heritage Site in 2008. On Mauritius With a Non-Jet-Set Wallet 2010-04-03T03:02:00Z The opening shot — an extended bit of cinematic bravura that takes in the pageantry and cruelty of a Louisiana plantation — seems to locate the action in the midst of the Civil War. ‘Antebellum’ Review: Look Away, Dixie Land 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Cocoa plantations typically harvest the bean in September, though this year, the season is a bit behind schedule. Spice and everything nice on Grenada Specifically, we headed to the Vine Retreat, a hotel and restaurant that opened a couple of years ago on a working pepper plantation close to Kep. Cambodia, in and Around Kep, Open but Undeveloped 2012-03-02T23:24:36Z Another contributor, Matthew Desmond, points out that the cotton plantation “was America’s first big business.” A Landmark Reckoning With America’s Racial Past and Present 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z After another enslaved man discovers their relationship, he attempts to turn the rest of the plantation against them, believing it puts everyone in danger. 13 New Books to Watch For in January 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Grain required less labor, so slave owners began to sell their enslaved people to plantation owners in the Deep South. Harriet Tubman: Biden revives plan to put a Black woman of faith on the $20 bill 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z The plantations’ size allowed for economies of scale. A Landmark Reckoning With America’s Racial Past and Present 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Beginning in the 16th century, hundreds of thousands of slaves were shipped from Africa to Spanish colonial Cuba to work on sugar plantations, bringing their languages, arts and spiritual lives with them. A Bumpy Journey From Havana to New York Ends at ‘Wild Noise/Ruido Salvaje’ 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z As LaBan notes, “Most telling . . . was allowing Hercules the right to sell the kitchen ‘slops’ — the remaining animal skins, used tea leaves, and rendered tallow that would have been compost on the plantation. The man who fed the first president — and hungered for freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Playing plantation parties and small gigs, he honed his skills to a fine edge and enlisted his brothers, Nick and Douglas, as his backing band. Blues guitarist Magic Slim dies in Pa. at age 75 2013-02-22T00:10:16Z In Dogville, she plays Ma Ginger, the town storekeeper; in Manderlay she is Mam, the plantation owner with a book of slave rules, “Mam’s Law” Lauren Bacall: a career in clips 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Throughout, black women are standing, sitting, phalanxed on the porches of what feel like plantations and antiquated houses, rich with pain. Beyoncé Unearths Pain and Lets It Flow in ‘Lemonade’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z There’s Darjeeling, where the scenery, deep-green tea plantations surrounded by mountains, is absolutely breathtaking. Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi Knows a Bit About Luxury Travel 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z In this New York Theater Workshop production, sex, race and power collide on an imagined plantation. 11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z While the group of slaves known as the Macon 7 made their dangerous break for the North, the story remained connected to the politics binding the plantation from which they escaped. John Legend’s Resistance TV: Season 2 of “Underground” is our reminder that freedom isn’t free 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z The huddled concrete forms of “Marsh Ruins” are covered in a layer of tabby, a crushed-shell mixture used in the construction of plantations in the nearby Sea Islands. Haunting ‘Ruins and Rituals’ Begins ‘A Year of Yes’ at Brooklyn Museum 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z An 1861 diary of a plantation proprietor in South Carolina suggests that merely by being exposed to Northern forces “the Institution of Slavery has received a blow that it will never recover from.” Exhibition Review: ‘The Civil War in America’ at Library of Congress 2013-01-10T20:02:01Z Oyono was born in the village of N'Goulemakong, ; the cocoa plantation and lush vegetation of his youth served as a backdrop to his fiction. Ferdinand Oyono obituary 2010-06-30T17:41:00Z Her first novel, Ancestor Stones, published four years later, portrayed a young Londoner who inherits a coffee plantation – as Forna did in her father's birthplace of Rogbonko, where she now has a 260-acre cashew estate. Aminatta Forna: a life in writing 2013-05-03T17:00:02Z She grows up to lead a black community living on a plantation, espousing education as a means to achieve. Can a 108-year-old opera — by Scott Joplin — be made to sing for today? 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z If Ani DiFranco’s apology seems overdue, you won’t think much of my timing: This plantation tour took place a number of years ago, but it’s bothered me ever since. I hosted a plantation retreat. Is it too late to say I’m sorry? 2014-01-20T15:30:00Z We toured the Foursquare Rum Distillery and Heritage Park, a sugar plantation turned modern factory. On a Caribbean Rum Trail 2014-02-21T19:02:44Z Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L Jackson play two of the film's big villains, plantation owner Calvin Candie and his right-hand man, Stephen, who keeps the slaves in line. Tarantino's Django in firing line 2013-01-17T07:34:22Z What leads her clients to plantations specifically is the desire for an “old house” on a pretty property, preferably near water. Disturbing wedding trend: Getting married at a plantation 2014-01-05T16:00:00Z In 2016, Georgetown acknowledged that hundreds of people who were enslaved on Jesuit plantations were sold in 1838 to farms in Louisiana to pay off some of the university’s debts. 'Built by my family': America's grand buildings constructed by slaves 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Indigo was produced on slave plantations in the American South and later under oppressive British rule in India. | Long Island: Seeing Asian Cultures, Through an Indigo Lens 2014-04-11T22:56:11Z The film stars Jamie Foxx as a slave turned bounty hunter who wreaks revenge on slave plantation owners as he tries to rescue his wife. China debut of "Django Unchained" suddenly cancelled for "technical reasons" 2013-04-11T08:00:40Z The Chicago photographer Dawoud Bey has documented the exteriors of slave quarters on Louisiana plantations in large-scale black-and-white images going on view Oct. A Show With Its Host City, New Orleans, as the Protagonist 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Yet many of its neighbours already have front doors done out in Farrow and Ball colours with plantation shutters at the windows. First the gangsters, then the bankers: how The Long Good Friday foretold the future 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z You don’t show in an old sugar factory without studying plantation labor. A ‘Fauxdega’ Where the Real Ones Have Been Priced Out 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Coffee tourism is a growing attraction here, with plantation walks and coffee tasting on the menu. Keep your cool in India by visiting one of the country’s hill stations 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Johnson is sung by the baritone Malcolm MacKenzie, who returns — after Said escapes his cruel plantation — in Act II as the more benevolent owner Owens. At the Spoleto Festival, Opera Is an Act of Liberation 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z Often overlooked, in fact, is the clothing worn by the four million American slaves created from what was called “plantation cloth,” “slave cloth” or “negro cloth”: coarse, thick bolts of linsey-woolsey, kersey and osnaburg. Exhibition Review: ‘Homefront and Battlefield’ Looks at Civil War Quilts 2014-05-05T20:59:16Z There is no record of lynchings on Long Island, and Jumby does not market itself as a plantation resort. Jamaica Kincaid’s Antigua 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Georgia, 1857: A cotton plantation owned by the Macon family has a geographical advantage of hills, forests and rivers that have discouraged generations of slaves from escaping. WGN’s thrilling escaped-slave drama ‘Underground’ is overdue — and right on time 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Fruit orchards were an essential element of Colonial plantations. George Washington would recognize today’s Mount Vernon garden, but not the weather 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Taylor was descended from slaves and plantation owners in North Carolina. Antiques: Works by Haviland Ceramics and Robert R. Taylor 2012-01-12T21:49:49Z Sugar's Fiji plantation endured sickness, confinement, hunger, abuse, injuries, whippings, beatings and more, all for below subsistence pay and the eventual chance to move out of indentured work. Uncovering the violent history of the Canadian sugar industry 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, white Americans are still getting married at plantations—a practice that Neiman said Germans would probably view with horror. What Can We Learn from the Germans About Confronting Our History? 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Cuba's monopoly cigar company was kicking off the festival that attracts wealthy tobacco aficionados and retailers from around the world for five days of extravagant parties and tours of plantations and factories. Cuban cigar sales rise, defying flat luxury goods market 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z A Sugar Baron’s Scattered Art Collection The 19th-century sugar tycoon William Hood Stewart ran a plantation in Cuba with thousands of acres and hundreds of slaves. Antiques: A Sugar Baron’s Scattered Art Collection 2013-06-20T21:52:26Z Patrick Curtis’s set — a kitchen in the plantation owner’s house — seems to float amid a primeval darkness. Theater Review: Yael Farber’s ‘Mies Julie,’ at St. Ann’s Warehouse 2012-11-13T03:00:00Z One such man is Antony Levallois, an ambitious plantation owner near Richmond. Review | Kevin Powers’s first novel exposed the horrors of the Iraq War. Now he takes on the Civil War. 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, who plays the free black man sold into slavery on Louisiana plantations, was nominated for best actor. Films on race '12 Years a Slave,' 'The Butler' lead SAG nominees 2013-12-11T19:20:09Z I wandered through the plantation’s sculpture garden and, reflecting on the legacy of the liquid I’d been trailing, spotted something remarkable: blood on the leaves. On a Caribbean Rum Trail 2014-02-21T19:02:44Z Contemplating the employees, she pictures herself as “the Black mistress of a tiny plantation” or “wearing a hoopskirt and waving her lace fan at Xochitl, across a gulf, from the wrong side of history.” This Novel Nods to Virginia Woolf While Staring Down Modern Class Lines 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z There's a reason for that: white plantation owners were prone to imitating European society and likely required their chefs to transform sweet potatoes, which grow easily in the South, into desserts. Thanks, Patti Labelle: Sweet potato pie will always beat pumpkin in my household 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Those are also the claims of the plantation gentry that owned slaves, forced them into exhausting, unpaid labor and treated them like animals. 12 Years a Slave and Mandela: Two Tales of Racism Survived 2013-09-09T23:34:54Z Several directors of the region’s historical plantations and homes, which offer tours of these once-prosperous estates, told me that until the 1990s, slavery’s role was generally met with silence. Critic?s Notebook: Emancipating History 2011-03-11T23:45:18Z In Butler’s book, a black woman living in Los Angeles in 1976 is repeatedly transported back to pre–Civil War Maryland, to a plantation where her ancestors lived. “See You Yesterday” and the Perils—and Promise—of Time-Travelling While Black 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Lindsay Kennedy, the director of LK, an event planning company in Richmond, Va., says that she plans about three to five weddings at plantations a year. Disturbing wedding trend: Getting married at a plantation 2014-01-05T16:00:00Z In another scene, the performers pantomime a plantation scene behind a backlit screen, their silhouettes a conscious nod to the work of the visual artist Kara Walker. “The Black Clown” Beautifully Reconfigures a Langston Hughes Poem 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z That plantation’s slave’s quarters, which if anything have been “prettified,” were spartan brick structures which must have reached oven-like temperatures during the hot and humid Southern summers. I hosted a plantation retreat. Is it too late to say I’m sorry? 2014-01-20T15:30:00Z Virtually nothing, as it did not transform American slavery or change the lives of others enslaved on Jefferson’s plantations. Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Talk About Our Past 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Guyanese Bhojpuri is a dying language, an amalgamation of various North Indian languages that developed on plantations. Review | Rajiv Mohabir’s ‘Antiman’ is a memoir that refuses genre 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z But over the past half-century or so, systems have been devised to create higher yields by growing coffee in full sun on large plantations. The basics of coffee labeling 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z “Down the River,” her commanding work, alludes to the practice of separating slaves — and prisoners to this day — from their families and sentencing them to backbreaking labor on the South’s cotton plantations. Artists Grapple With America’s Prison System 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z You may even read Jason Sherwood’s set as a sneaky comment on the writing style: The backdrop is a black-and-white photograph of a plantation’s facade, slightly cantilevered so it looms over the playing area. Review: Fixing a Dispassionate Stare on Slavery in ‘Southern Promises’ 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Lawrence Scott … moral dilemmas underpic much of his fiction Lawrence Scott was born on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, and was a Benedictine monk in England before becoming a teacher and an extremely gifted writer. Light Falling on Bamboo – review 2012-09-28T21:55:01Z "We no longer want to see a statue that glorifies the values of Jefferson Davis, who while leading the Confederacy, owned a plantation with over 100 slaves," the petition states. Jefferson Davis statue deemed racist to be relocated at UT Austin 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘It was my first time on an actual plantation, and suddenly I just pictured people hanging from all these beautiful trees.’ Malachi Kirby on remaking Roots: ‘I could feel the pain, hear the screams' 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Later, Tubman aided the union in the American civil war, even leading a raid to liberate slaves from plantations in South Carolina. How Cynthia Erivo took the US by storm – with a little help from Aretha and Oprah 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z If I use this word a lot, it’s because I think it’s the most beautiful word in the language, summoning images of one-lane roads, switchbacks and coffee plantations at the top of the world. King of the banana republic 2012-06-03T21:00:00Z Trumpet star Dizzy Gillespie, in a 1949 interview, even called him “the plantation character that so many of us … younger men … resent.” Louis Armstrong’s museum has gone silent, but ‘Pops’ is still talking 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z With the European introduction of sugar cane, more than 5 million Africans are estimated to have been forcibly brought to the Caribbean during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries to work the plantations. 5 Caribbean Islands Where You Can Go Beyond the Beach 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Angola, which is a private prison where Robert was incarcerated for 21 years, with several plantations that were consolidated into one plantation that is 18,000 acres of land. "Time" filmmaker on families affected by incarceration: "Being together is a type of resistance" 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z At Oak Alley Plantation, our first stop, about 50 miles upriver from New Orleans, two young women in full-gown regalia, including parasols, stood at the plantation entrance for our picture-taking benefit. The American Queen Paddle-Wheeler Cruises on the Mississippi 2012-06-01T19:22:58Z The same economics play out on his coffee plantation. Colombian coffee at the crossroads 2013-05-13T19:48:00Z “She would never say that. She grew up on a plantation and she understands the horrors of it,” Clarke said. Jane Austen, actress create PBS costume drama diversity 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The most haunting place I find on the island is Melrose, another former plantation turned luxury golf community that is adjacent to Haig Point. Less than a mile from Hilton Head, this S.C. island couldn’t be more different 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z One boasts of an 18th-century plantation home nestled inside a scenic landscape — complete with two slave cabins that show off the property’s “elaborate past.” Wedding vendors romanticize slave plantations. The Knot and Pinterest will no longer promote them. 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z The Lumpkins also challenged the South’s plantation and emerging industrial class by championing workers and left-wing agitators. The Daughters of the Confederacy Who Turned Their Heritage to Political Ends 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z “We’re one of the few plantations telling the story of slavery, of how it was,” said Matthew Ward, a guide and PhD student in history at Louisiana State University. New Orleans celebrates 300 years of letting the good times roll 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z This necessary and routine violence defined the afterlife of slavery and documented the reach of the plantation into the ghetto. An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z The harvesting and shipment of cocoa, like other plantation crops, was an integral part of the transatlantic trade and was heavily reliant on the labor of enslaved Africans throughout the diaspora. Oppression in the kitchen, delight in the dining room 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z In the film, we see Tubman leading hundreds of black troops, leveling a rifle at her Confederate enemies as plantations burn in the background. Harriet Tubman Facts and Myths: How the Movie Tried to Get it Right 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z The plantation owner’s wife stares at him from the veranda, ignoring his agony, as do the other slaves, going about their yard chores. 12 Years a Slave: An Unflinching Take on the Great American Shame 2013-10-18T17:07:02Z Later, she infiltrates plantations to gather intelligence from enslaved people. Critic’s Notebook: Assassin’s Creed: Liberation Examines Colonial Blacks 2014-01-27T22:50:06Z With plantations crowded with tall oaks eerily dressed in flowing Spanish moss, the beautiful spaces felt haunted from playing roles in far too many brutal acts of real-life human horror. ‘Birth of a Nation’: The most powerful moments behind the scenes 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The enslaved did not have "their part of the plantation." Family history, distilled: My ancestor Nathan "Nearest" Green, Jack Daniel's and my dad's sobriety 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z “When I moved here in 1990, there were still five sugar plantations,” Domingo said. Break away from Kauai’s beaches and take your taste buds on a tour 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z And then you cross to the Chinese side, and there are plantations everywhere! Invisible Bridges: Life Along the Chinese-Russian Border 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z In the most distant story line, young Josephine is a girl caught in the dehumanizing demands of plantation life. Review | ‘The Revisioners’ reminds us of slavery’s long reach, through the generations 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z That’s the thrust of Jeremy O. Harris’s stage drama “Slave Play,” in which the traumatic legacy of plantation life pollutes the black half of the show’s interracial relationships. Why Do the Oscars Keep Falling for Racial Reconciliation Fantasies? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z The sprawling plantation property, with cypresses, live oaks and draping Spanish moss, was built in 1796 by Gen. David Bradford and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Like a good scare? Here are five haunted hotels with stories fit for true-crime files. 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Tarantino's film, which also stars Leonardo DiCaprio as vindictive plantation owner Calvin Candie, has also come under fire for its use of more than 100 instances of the "N" word. Django Unchained wins over black audience despite Spike Lee criticism 2013-01-03T10:51:08Z Those tracts include Robins Island in New York’s Peconic Bay, which he donated to the Nature Conservancy, and an ancestral plantation in North Carolina. Audubon Society Gala Honors Louis Bacon, Bette Midler Sings Birdie Tunes 2013-03-28T13:44:04Z |
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