| 单词 | plantation owner |
| 例句 | 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Monroe County had been developed by plantation owners in the nineteenth century for the production of cotton. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Former slaves literally walked away from their plantations, causing panic and outrage among plantation owners. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 She realizes that her family has been targeted by an evil spirit, the ghost of a long-dead fisherman exacting revenge for an injustice committed by her grandfather, the Dutch plantation owner. Review: ‘Beauty Is a Wound,’ an Indonesian Blend of History, Myth and Magic 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 Things are better for everyone, the film suggests, when men like Uncle Remus accept their subservience and benefit from the largesse of white plantation owners, even when they’re ostensibly free to leave at any time. Song of the South: the difficult legacy of Disney's most shocking movie 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 The film, which won five Golden Globe nominations last week, stars Jamie Foxx as a slave turned bounty hunter who wreaks revenge on slave plantation owners as he tries to rescue his wife. "Django Unchained" premiere canceled after Newtown shooting 2012-12-18T00:52:47Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 She was the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner in South Carolina. Reading About the Confederacy 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z 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 She is unhappily married to a man who has a sexual and, yes, romantic relationship with the plantation owner, who is portrayed as deeply conflicted about slavery. Opinion: Censorship rears its ugly head at Santa Monica College, over a play about slavery 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z “Where would a gay plantation owner and a slave look for a love relationship?” he said. How a 'shocking' play about slavery set off a firestorm at Santa Monica College 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z This knowledge is essential because of the brutality toward enslaved Black women’s bodies and sexual violence from plantation owners, including Annis’ own father. An enslaved woman charts a path in Jesmyn Ward’s ‘Let Us Descend’ 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z It was in the self-interest of the plantation owners and other folks in the South to defend slavery when it was under attack. Lies, damned lies and "corporate bulls**t": A consumer's guide to bad-faith arguments 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z He’s donned an array of regrettable facial hair, old-age makeup and greasy wigs to transform into vile plantation owners, shameless financial criminals, rumpled astronomy professors, washed-up actors and legendary real-world paranoiacs. 'Titanic' made Leonardo DiCaprio a Hollywood heartthrob. He's been avoiding it ever since 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Torres, the plantation owner, would like to see that type of exporter kicked out of the industry. Security in Ecuador has come undone as drug cartels exploit the banana industry to ship cocaine 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z In his first speech to Parliament, the Liberal prime minister defended the rights of plantation owners, but later branded slavery the "foulest crime" in history. Gladstone family urged to pay slavery reparations to Jamaica 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z Charles Gladstone, a descendant of former plantation owner John Gladstone, traveled to Guyana from Britain with five relatives to offer the formal apology. Descendants of a British owner of slaves in Guyana apologize as Caribbean nation seeks reparations 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z Ali spoke ahead of Friday’s planned formal apology in Guyana by the descendants of Scottish 19th-century sugar and coffee plantation owner John Gladstone, saying the apology should also include issues of compensation and reparative justice. President of Guyana demands slavery reparations ahead of apology from plantation owner descendants 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z Sugar became the dominant industry in Lahaina in the latter part of the 19th century, and to irrigate their fields, plantation owners diverted streams that once flowed from the mountains to the sea. Locals have been sounding the alarm for years about Lahaina wildfire risk 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z Mayor Eric Adams compared an activist whose family fled the Holocaust to a plantation owner after she asked him about back-to-back rent increases. The End of Affirmative Action 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z It’s a story about her great-grandfather, a Georgia sharecropper cheated by a crooked plantation owner out of compensation. A new way of looking at Juneteenth 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Haiti spent over a century paying France a costly "debt" as plantation owners demanded payment for property - including slaves - lost in the Haitian Revolution, often described as the world's first and only successful slave rebellion. Haiti humanitarian aid needs to come to terms with gangs, says Caribbean leader 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z A contest in which Black people would perform a stylized walk in pairs, typically judged by a plantation owner. The first 10 words of the African American English dictionary are in 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z Lahaina's royal fishpond devolved into a stagnant marsh, and plantation owners filled it in with coral rubble. Locals have been sounding the alarm for years about Lahaina wildfire risk 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z Brunias, says the label, mainly painted appealing images of plantation life for plantation owners. Tate Britain has rehung its art collection: What can we learn? 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z The Assembly desperately scrambled to maintain control of the situation, hoping in part to win over the free people of color in the colony to fight alongside white plantation owners to maintain control. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Congress increased taxes on foreign sugar, which raised the price of Hawaiian sugar and threatened the profits of American plantation owners. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z From the 16th to 19th centuries, plantation owners, unwilling to cede any land earmarked for sugar cane cultivation to grow crops for enslaved Africans, looked to abundantly cheap dried salted cod. A Trinidadian recipe, and its long history, helps unite a family 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Before the Civil War, the county was home to cotton plantation owners where wealthy landowners got rich off the labor of enslaved people. DOJ: Alabama ignored sewer issues, harmed Black residents 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Two possible makers have been identified, sisters whose mother cared for the plantation owners’ children. Stories told in stitchery at Folk Art Museum’s quilt exhibit 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z The British government was involved in the Atlantic slave trade and reimbursed plantation owners for the loss of labour that occurred when slavery was outlawed in 1834. Jamaica cool on Charles' coronation as it eyes break with monarchy 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z In Hawaii, plantation owners used contract labor from Portugal, China, Korea, Japan, and the Philippines to grow their crops, especially sugarcane. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Bologne, the son of a French plantation owner and a young Senegalese enslaved woman, was born on the Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe and educated in France. Review: 'Chevalier' opts for shallow and tawdry, diminishing the radical spirit of its subject 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z After Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and Andrew Jackson, who held deeply racist beliefs, became president, the land was returned to former plantation owners. On U.S. Barrier Islands, African-Rooted Traditions Protect Against a Relentlessly Rising Ocean 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z In 2010, the University of Mississippi replaced its longtime mascot, a Southern plantation owner known as Colonel Reb, with the Rebel Black Bear. George Washington University Is Moving on From ‘Colonials’ 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z No wonder plantation owners would forbid enslaved people from using drums. Perspective | Why it’s important to teach Black kids Black history and culture 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z To compensate for the disappearance of so many young men, who were the laborers most preferred by plantation owners, many African ethnic groups adopted polygyny, allowing men to take multiple wives. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Kawānanakoa inherited her wealth from her great-grandfather, Irish businessman James Campbell, who made his fortune as a sugar plantation owner and one of Hawaii’s largest landowners. Public viewing at palace for ‘last Hawaiian princess’ 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z James Campbell, her great-grandfather, was an Irish business executive who made his fortune as a sugar plantation owner and one of Hawaii’s largest landowners. Abigail Kawananakoa, Hawaiian princess, dies at 96 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z James Campbell, her great-grandfather, was an Irish businessman who made his fortune as a sugar plantation owner and one of Hawaii’s largest landowners. Kawanakakoa, considered last Hawaiian princess, dies at 96 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Over the course of his long, arduous journey he must also endure hunger and thirst, alligators and mosquitoes, sweltering heat and complicit plantation owners. Review: 'Emancipation,' with Will Smith, struggles to do its real-life survival story justice 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z After Dessalines declared Haiti’s sovereign independence on January 1, 1804, White plantation owners either fled or were killed, and lands were redistributed among Haiti’s former enslaved and free Black people. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Her family once picked cotton for plantation owners. Review | Admiring the beauty — and beautiful politics — of the Black family home 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z The wealth amassed by the plantation owners gave Maryland’s colonialists prominent standing in early American politics. Perspective | 200 years after Harriet Tubman’s birth, Md. finally gets a Black governor 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Yet none of these achievements allowed this son of an enslaved Senegalese woman and a plantation owner to overcome the racist barriers that prevented him from being recognized as fully equal to his white peers. Racism nearly erased his name from music history but interest in Joseph Bologne is reawakening 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Born into slavery, she was “given” as a wedding present to a Georgia plantation owner and his wife, who answered Brigham Young’s call to build his desert Zion in 1848. Review: How the West was won — and lost — by women: A new history revises the record 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z On the other hand, plantation owners behaved in much the same way as owners of other industrial enterprises, by setting production goals, for example. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z With Southern plantation owners demanding slaves for their cotton fields, Alabama plantation owner Timothy Meaher made a bet that he could bring a shipload of Africans across the Atlantic. Saga of last US slave ship finds life in ‘Descendant’ doc 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Du Bois pointed out that poor whites, politically allied with rich Southern plantation owners, were complicit in their disenfranchisement. Why the book bans and censorship? Those who rule want to crush knowledge — and freedom 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z This history goes back centuries to when enslaved Black women were forced to care for plantation owners’ children while leaving their own children without care. Opinion | D.C. recognizes how much early-childhood education matters 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z They learned that as early Richmond began to industrialize, plantation owners would hire out their enslaved workers to city businesses and factories. Richmond’s statues fell. Now these sisters aim to lift up Black history. 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Principles of social equality, moreover, remained incomplete when former gens de couleur libres adopted the roles of the former plantation owners at the top of the social hierarchy. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The church took steps to remove the stone, which commends the plantation owner and bears a racist term, after calls from anti-racism campaigners. Racist memorial to slaver to be removed from Dorchester church 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Southern plantation owners expected the tariff would be costly for them, because it raised the price of goods they could only import. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z I found out that one of my ancestors was the largest plantation owner in that part of the state. What’s Actually Being Taught in U.S. History 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z First, the Federalist position tended to win support among businessmen, large farmers, and, in the South, plantation owners. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z The plantation owners then shipped molasses, a by- product of sugar production, to other English settlers in the colony of Massachusetts, who transformed it into rum and shipped that to England. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Stewart and other descendants are the progeny of 272 enslaved men, women and children sold in 1838 by the Jesuit owners of Georgetown University to Louisiana plantation owners to pay off the school’s debts. Lag in slavery reparations from US Jesuits irks descendants 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Under this system, authorities assigned Native workers to mine and plantation owners with the understanding that the recipients would defend the colony and teach the workers the tenets of Christianity. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Fort Bragg, which is home to the 82nd Airborne Division, was named after a “slave-owning plantation owner and senior Confederate Army officer,” the report said. Renaming Army bases that honor Confederates would cost $21M 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Lowndes County was lush cotton country where plantation owners got rich off the labor of enslaved Black people before the Civil War; sharecropping ensnared the descendants of the freed slaves in the decades after. In towns plagued by raw sewage, EPA promises relief 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z The voyage happened decades after the law banning the importation of slaves had taken effect when a wealthy plantation owner made a bet he he could smuggle a shipload of enslaved people across the ocean. Clotilda descendants mark anniversary of last slave ship 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z They were also intentionally abandoned by relief authorities, who cooperated with railroad and plantation owners to make it practically impossible for African Americans to escape from their communities. How a flood from 100 years ago tested the government's ability to respond to climate change 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Instead, English plantation owners from the tiny Caribbean island of Barbados, already a well-established English sugar colony fueled by slave labor, migrated to the southern part of Carolina to settle there. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Morgan, a plantation owner, said that after Black people had “flocked” to Washington, Congress had no choice but to take away everyone’s vote in D.C.: D.C. elected its own mayors in the 1800s — until Congress stepped in 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Many Black people were forced to continue to labor under the oppression of ruthless enslavers and unscrupulous plantation owners. After Juneteenth, many Black people in Texas remained enslaved 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z “To France’s shame, not a single one of the monsters,” he wrote, singling out plantation owners and their managers by name, has experienced “even the slightest punishment for his crimes.” The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z They had been recorded by plantation owners seeking compensation for the loss of their property. 'There's power in names': Antigua unearths lost ancestors 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z American plantation owners, who were searching for a successful staple crop to compete on the world market, found it in cotton. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z While New England’s image has been linked in popular culture to abolitionism, the report said, wealthy plantation owners and Harvard were mutually dependent. Harvard Details Its Ties to Slavery and Its Plans for Redress 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Unlike large plantation owners, small farmers in the middle colonies and elsewhere had to be cautious about raising crops for sale. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z France strengthened its laws forbidding the mutilation or killing of enslaved people in the 1780s, a sign of how openly cruel some plantation owners had become. The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Others born into slavery were often named after plantation owners, slave vessels or derived from traditional English or Biblical names. 'There's power in names': Antigua unearths lost ancestors 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z They hungered to own and farm their own lands instead of the lands of White plantation owners. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z And by forging partnerships to improve schools in the American South and the West Indies, where plantation owners and Boston Brahmins made their intertwined fortunes on the backs of the enslaved. Harvard Details Its Ties to Slavery and Its Plans for Redress 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z The most nimble or unscrupulous succeeded in amassing large landholdings and numerous servants, laying the groundwork for a dominant class of wealthy plantation owners. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Her paternal grandparents, wealthy plantation owners who relied on Black labor to work the fields, brokered cotton in the Mississippi town where Emmett Till was lynched. Review: How one writer learned to live with her deplorable ancestors 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z There was talk of pain, but also an acknowledgment that this generation of Jamaicans is a long way from the generations exploited by plantation owners during colonial rule. Prince William shares 'profound sorrow' over slavery in Jamaica speech 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Wealthy plantation owners like Lloyd came close to forming an American ruling class in the years before the Civil War. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z They were often wealthy merchants and plantation owners who wanted a strong central government. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Virginia’s plantation owners soon began shifting from servants to slaves. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Not all that different, as Flood pointed out, from the way enslaved people were once tied to plantation owners. Perspective | Baseball’s history of selfish, shortsighted owners adds another sorry chapter 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z In Africa, numerous cultures lost generations of their fittest members—their young and able—to European traders and plantation owners. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Both stood at the top of South Carolina’s society as successful, married plantation owners involved in state politics. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z When the Louisiana Territory was purchased in 1803, plantation owners in the South wanted to spread the practice of slavery to the new states. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z What opposition there was to the proposal in the all-White Mississippi legislature came not from people who believed in racial equality but from plantation owners who feared losing their cheap, brutalized labor force. A century ago, Mississippi’s Senate voted to send all the state’s Black people to Africa 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z An older racist white man, a powerful local plantation owner played by Larry Gates, slaps Poitier’s character, Virgil Tibbs, a Philadelphia detective who has come to a small Southern town to investigate a murder. Sidney Poitier leaves a rich legacy: the 'freedom to choose' 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z The phrase “Ole Miss” had been used by enslaved people to refer to a plantation owner’s wife. Trademark tussle: Ole Miss objects to similar New Miss logo 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z Slavery defused class tensions among them, because no matter how poor they were, White southerners had race in common with the mighty plantation owners. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The Republican Party was mostly supported by businessmen, plantation owners, and those looking for social reform. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Confederate elite — the plantation owners and allies — were enraged. American democracy is under siege 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z While full freedom was finally granted in 1838, the plantation owners preserved considerable economic and political power might into the 20th Century. A new republic is born: Barbados celebrates ditching Britain's queen 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Like some employers and politicians today, white plantation owners complained that the emancipated Black Americans were lazy, “insolent and refusing to work.” Are we witnessing a ‘General Strike’ in our own time? 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z In the South, White business and plantation owners feared that their cheap workforce was fleeing the region, and used violence to intimidate Black people into staying. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Three of her four children were described as “bright” or “mulatto” on census forms — and each was born about five months after the Maplewood plantation owners’ children were born. Perspective | These stories are supposed to give you nightmares 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z "Jackson was a penniless frontier orphan who through sheer grit and determination became a lawyer, Army general, plantation owner, politician, and president," Clavin said. Is Trump like Andrew Jackson? Yeah — in all the bad ways, and none of the good ones 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z Forrest was a Confederate cavalry general who amassed a fortune before the Civil War as a Memphis slave trader and plantation owner. Confederate bust moved from Tennessee Capitol building 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Forrest was a Confederate cavalry general who amassed a fortune before the Civil War as a plantation owner and trader of enslaved persons in Memphis. Washington Post 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Many plantation owners resided in England, with established slave-based industries across the Caribbean, funneling wealth to the British Empire. Jamaica set to seek compensation from Britain over slave trade 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Iit was the fear of these white plantation owners not having an armed group to protect them from slave revolts? Scholar Carol Anderson on the "anti-Blackness" coded into the Second Amendment 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z He said the plantation owner was led to the trench by the cub's crying. India wildlife officials reunite leopard cub with mum 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z It focused on a 1700s speech given by plantation owner to white Virginia colonists on how to keep their Black slaves under control. ‘Let’s Make a Slave’ lesson lawsuit dismissed in Tennessee 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z It drew whalers, missionaries and plantation owners, bringing Bibles, illness and a colonizer’s sense of entitlement. ‘I’m Not Anti-Anything. I’m Pro-Hawaii.’ 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z In 1810, he had posted a notice about a runaway enslaved person on behalf of the plantation owner. Analysis | This man says he’s related to Robert E. Lee. There’s no evidence. 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z His body is desecrated, but it’s the plantation owners who are the hideous monsters. Review: In 'The Underground Railroad,' an Oscar winner re-imagines slavery from the inside out 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z Once opened, the university was designed to be an elite institution meant to educate the sons of wealthy plantation owners or merchants. College of Charleston celebrates 250th anniversary 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Forrest was a Confederate cavalry general who amassed a fortune as a plantation owner and slave trader in Memphis before the Civil War and later became a Klan leader. Tennessee panel votes to move Confederate bust from Capitol 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z In 1893, with the blessing of the American government and the backing of Marines, plantation owners led by the politician Sanford B. Dole overthrew Queen Liliuokalani. ‘I’m Not Anti-Anything. I’m Pro-Hawaii.’ 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z It toys with the plot of Dion Boucicault’s 19th century play “The Octoroon,” which is about a forbidden interracial relationship between a plantation owner and a girl of mixed race. Fountain Theatre's first play on its pandemic outdoor stage? 'An Octoroon' 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z He left South Carolina after seeing the beating of a fellow worker by a plantation owner and knowing that being a witness put him in danger. Looking back at Ali vs. Frazier: 50 years since 'The Fight of the Century' 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z In 1918, a mob killed Hayes Turner, suspected in the death of an abusive plantation owner. Oregon moves to ban display of nooses, a racist symbol 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Smothers’ research on his own family proves his point: he is a descendant of four different plantation owners. With slavery’s impact, how do Black residents find ancestors 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z Heirs of Samuel Marshall, a white plantation owner, sold the land to the South Carolina Land Commission for $10 per acre. Promised Land: A place to call home 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Born in Guadeloupe, the son of a French plantation owner and an African woman that owner likely enslaved, Bologne became something of a celebrity in Paris. Review: At L.A. and Long Beach operas, the pandemic gives young talent a spotlight 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z It had some of the richest, blackest soil in the country, and to till it, plantation owners enslaved millions of people. The six political states of North Carolina 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z The report details links to plantation owners and those who were paid compensation for enslaved people freed through abolition, as well as those who gained their wealth through the slave trade. National Trust details colonialism and slave links 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z Then, look at county land records to identify the major plantation owners in the area. With slavery’s impact, how do Black residents find ancestors 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z After he was born in Burnside, La., which was named for an Irish sugar plantation owner on whose plantation Ward’s parents worked, Ward’s family moved to New Orleans. Perspective | A ‘Day of Absence’ was once an off-Broadway satire. NBA players brought it to life. 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z The university retired its Colonel Reb mascot in 2003 amid criticism that the bearded old man looked like a plantation owner. Relocated rebel statue causes athlete concerns at Ole Miss 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Kars is transparent about the problematic nature of the testimonies, in which captured rebels were asked by a trio of hostile plantation owners about what transpired during the rebellion. A rebel slave died a hero, and was forgotten; a dramatic new history revives his legend 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z The Aunt Jemima mythology transported Green to a tiny cabin in Louisiana, where she was the loyal cook for a Colonel Higbee, a plantation owner on the Mississippi. Overlooked No More: Nancy Green, the ‘Real Aunt Jemima’ 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z From the 17th century until the abolition of slavery in 1863, Dutch merchants and ships were heavily involved in slave-trading, and plantation owners in Dutch colonies in the Caribbean used slave labor. The Netherlands marks anniversary of abolition of slavery 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z And so when protesters in Richmond, Va., recently tore down the bronze statue of Williams Carter Wickham, a Confederate general and plantation owner, Mr. Wickham was glad to see it fall. When the Toppled Statue Is of Your Great-Great-Great-Grandfather 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z In Texas, plantation owners often hid the news of freedom following the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth: activists across US inherit a historic battle for racial justice 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z After grim, dangerous voyages across the Atlantic, the slaves were sold to plantation owners in the British Caribbean, as well as Virginia. In an English City, an Early Benefactor Is Now ‘a Toxic Brand’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z She inherited her wealth as the great-granddaughter of James Campbell, an Irish businessman who made his fortune as a sugar plantation owner and one of Hawaii’s largest landowners. Judge mulls conservatorship for so-called Hawaiian princess 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z “Slavers are quite clear cut in my view, plantation owners are quite clear cut.” London mayor says statues of imperialists could be removed 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z On Saturday protesters toppled the statue of slave and plantation owner, the Confederate General Williams Carter Wickham, using ropes to pull it down. What the George Floyd protests have achieved in just two weeks 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z One former manager claims that plantation owners hid more than 800 undocumented workers from Rainforest Alliance auditors. Rainforest Alliance certifying unethical pineapple farms, activists claim 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Rich plantation owners coveted the huge stretches of fertile land that indigenous peoples occupied, and some Southern politicians threatened to secede if Northerners interfered with their plans. Review | Illuminating slave owners’ crucial role in the expulsion of Native Americans 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Kawananakoa inherited her wealth as the great-granddaughter of James Campbell, an Irish businessman who made his fortune as a sugar plantation owner and one of Hawaii’s largest landowners. Judge: Hawaiian ‘princess’ needs help managing $215M estate 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Southern plantation owners demanded workers for their cotton fields. Alabama to exhibit artifacts from last US slave ship 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z “The legislative calendar was set in the 17th century, when everyone in the legislature was a plantation owner,” said Del. Lee Carter. Virginia lawmakers face tight deadlines on major issues 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Many plantation owners also kept poor records of slave life and did little to preserve reminders of it - another reason for the information void. US ‘honor roll’ of historic places often ignores slavery 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z For Tatanya Peterson, who spent 13 years researching her family history, it became personal thanks to the documents of a plantation owner. Woman finds her roots in ancestors’ enslavement 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z Forrest was a Confederate cavalry general who amassed a fortune before the Civil War as a plantation owner and slave trader in Memphis. Tennessee lawmakers debate Confederate bust removal 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z The same exclusions applied to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which meant that many black sharecroppers and farmers were without protection from continued exploitation by white-male plantation owners in the Jim Crow south. Workers need a bold vision to bring about a more equitable society 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z There were so many Africans in Jamaica that the colonial government passed a law requiring plantation owners to have at least one white man for every twenty slaves on an estate. The Long War Against Slavery 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Forrest, a cavalry general, amassed a fortune as a plantation owner and slave trader in Memphis before the civil war. Tennessee governor seeks to amend law honouring leader of Ku Klux Klan 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Forrest, a Confederate cavalry general, amassed a fortune as a plantation owner and slave trader in Memphis before the Civil War. Lee working to amend Confederate general proclamation 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z The nickname for athletic teams remains the Rebels, but the university retired its Colonel Reb mascot in 2003 amid criticism that the bearded old man looked like a plantation owner. Board delays vote on moving Confederate monument at Ole Miss 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z A love letter alters the trial of the wife of a plantation owner in Malaysia, for shooting a man she claimed attacked her. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Healy was born in Georgia, the son of a plantation owner and a slave. Special Report: Icebound - The climate-change secrets of 19th century ship's logbooks 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z While most historical records indicate that the rebels killed the plantation owner’s son, but failed to kill Andry himself, one local historian maintains that Andry’s son died before the massacre. In the Deep South, a reenactment for the 21st century 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z The 1811 rebellion was violently suppressed by a militia of plantation owners before it made it to the city. 'A story about freedom': why an artist is re-enacting a forgotten slave revolt 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Experts are urging plantation owners to consider boosting the habitats for macaques. Greedy killer monkeys found eating large rats in Malaysia, leaving scientists ‘stunned’ 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Among other things, this would involve addressing a change from large-scale land clearing by plantation owners to small-scale clearing by small farmers. A Season of Fire Tests Indonesia’s Efforts to Curb Deforestation 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Forrest was a Confederate cavalry general who amassed a fortune as a plantation owner and slave trader in Memphis before the Civil War. Lee: Tennessee panel expected to address Confederate bust 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z A board at the front asks: Do you think plantation owners like the McLeod family experienced these tumultuous times differently than the Dawsons, the Forrests, and other African American families who lived here? The awkward questions about slavery from US tourists 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The fires are often started by smallholders and plantation owners to clear land for planting. World Digest: Sept. 11, 2019 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z To raise the money to start many future plantation owners turned to capital markets in London - selling debt that was used to purchase boats, goods and eventually people. The hidden links between slavery and Wall Street 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Some plantation owners found themselves with more enslaved labor than they needed, so they would “lease out” some of them for extra income. Gabriel’s revolt: In 1800, he was savvy, armed and determined to end slavery in Virginia’s capital 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Mr Siddhartha was born to a family of coffee plantation owners in Chikmagalur, a lush hill station located in the southern state of Karnataka. The man who brought coffee culture to India 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z The U.S. banned the importation of slaves in 1808, but the ship brought the enslaved people to the U.S. after the wager of a plantation owner. Alabama seeks to preserve ‘last slave ship’ wreckage 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z On six of them, researchers used herbicides to remove all of the understory, as well as ferns living on palm trees, which many plantation owners do. Courting controversy, scientists team with industry to tackle one of the world’s most destructive crops 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z If plantation owners defaulted on loan payment the banks took ownership of these slaves. The hidden links between slavery and Wall Street 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z In September 1799, Gabriel stole a pig from a plantation owner — a relatively common act among poorly fed enslaved people, Egerton wrote. Gabriel’s revolt: In 1800, he was savvy, armed and determined to end slavery in Virginia’s capital 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z He offered proof of this skill by recalling his cordiality with racist senators, among them the late senator James Eastland, a Mississippi plantation owner who referred to black people as an inferior race. Joe Biden represents a failed white liberalism | Malaika Jabali 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z With the help of the plantation owner’s eccentric brother — a naturalist and abolitionist — he escapes and travels the world, but can’t quite dispel the fear that lives within him. How Esi Edugyan came to write the award-winning ‘Washington Black’ 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z The US banned the importation of slaves in 1808, but the slave trade carried on beyond this date as there was still demand for workers from southern plantation owners. Wreck of 'last US slave ship' found in Alabama 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Southern plantation owners needed workers for their cotton fields. Wreck of last slave ship from Africa located off Alabama coast 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z According to a number of accounts of the rebellion, Charles Deslondes was mothered by an enslaved woman and fathered by a white plantation owner. First slavery, then a chemical plant and cancer deaths: one town's brutal history 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z When she arrived in the US, she was bought by an Alabama banker and plantation owner and became known as Sally Smith. Last survivor of US slave ships identified 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z More recently, plantation owners have found profitable uses for waste such as empty fruit bunches, palm fronds, palm fruit peels, and palm kernel shells. How the world got hooked on palm oil 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Interviews with leading brands, commodity traders and plantation owners show the systems have limitations and opinions on them vary, reflecting tension within the industry over how to tackle an issue with no easy answer. Can 'Big Brother' technology clean up palm oil's image? 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Cotton was booming in the South, and wealthy plantation owners needed hands to work the fields. Descendants from last US slave ship gathering in Alabama 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Cotton was booming in the South, and wealthy plantation owners needed hands to work the fields. Descendants from last US slave ship gathering in Alabama 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Cotton was booming in the South, and wealthy plantation owners needed hands to work the fields. Descendants from last US slave ship gathering in Alabama 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z The short-term benefits to plantation owners and labourers, producer-nations’ governments and financiers have come with enormous long-term costs to the global climate. How the world got hooked on palm oil 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Dominion bought the land for the compressor station from white descendants of a plantation owner. Virginia regulators unexpectedly delay decision on controversial gas project 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z With Southern resentment of federal control near a peak, Alabama plantation owner Timothy Meaher made a bet that he could bring a shipload of Africans across the ocean, said historian Natalie S. Robertson. Descendants from last US slave ship gathering in Alabama 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z With Southern resentment of federal control near a peak, Alabama plantation owner Timothy Meaher made a bet that he could bring a shipload of Africans across the ocean, said historian Natalie S. Robertson. Descendants from last US slave ship gathering in Alabama 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z With Southern resentment of federal control near a peak, Alabama plantation owner Timothy Meaher made a bet that he could bring a shipload of Africans across the ocean, said historian Natalie S. Robertson. Descendants from last US slave ship gathering in Alabama 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z When the latter proved insufficient to tend and harvest the cotton crops, the Scottish plantation owners turned to importing Africans as slaves. Calendar Feedback: Barbra Streisand has 'A Star Is Born' clarification, arts after the crash - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z A plantation owner might buy a run of cloth, all the same stripe or gingham, which could be adapted into pants, skirts and kerchiefs; a single set of clothing needed to last a whole year. In ‘Black Panther,’ Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter Found a Career-Defining Challenge 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Starting in the Merchant City, Laura took a short tour for BBC Scotland's The Social that went past streets named after four plantation owners. 'Glasgow should own up to its dark secret' 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The GOP became associated with an era before statehood when white plantation owners dominated Hawaii’s economy and government. Diminished Hawaii Republicans aim to incrementally rebuild 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z I became aware of the fantastical nature of this narrative as a schoolboy, when I thought of the wealth of the plantation owners, built on the backs of slaves. The American Economy Is Rigged 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z White plantation owners never thought twice about acquiring this land, and many of these areas were abandoned after the Civil War. Hurricane Florence and the Displacement of African-Americans Along the Carolina Coast 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z A tour guide noted that the 6-foot-2 plantation owner would lie on the library floor and study “with as many as 20 books opened around him at one time.” Perspective | A visit to Monticello offers a reminder of the enduring legacy of ‘deep rooted prejudices’ 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z The Atlantic slave trade ended with an act of Congress in 1807, but the founders/plantation owners continued as slavers, via a bustling interstate slave trade that ended only with the Civil War. Opinion | The invisible plaque at Alexandria’s notorious slave jail 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Its name was derived from the African country where the plantation owners obtained their slaves. The Black Panthers still in prison: after 46 years, will they ever be set free? 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z But her father was a white plantation owner and her mother, an enslaved woman, was of mixed race. Sally Hemings gets her due at Monticello 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Nothing was taught about Jefferson the plantation owner, who enslaved other human beings — including Hemings, who went unmentioned in our history books. Opinion | It’s time for Sally Hemings to show us the unvarnished Thomas Jefferson 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z They are listed among the property owned by white plantation owners with the surnames Colbert and Rixey. Opinion | Corey Stewart is a walking train wreck 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Scholars often viewed the institution in romantic terms, arguing that it benefited slaves as well as white plantation owners. Ira Berlin, transformative historian of slavery in America, dies at 77 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Barak, then about 11, was picking carrots alongside them when he looked up and saw one of the men supervising their work, “like a kibbutznik turned plantation owner”. Ehud Barak on the crisis in Israel: ‘Netanyahu has to resign’ 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z The problem was that some slaves were married to slaves belonging to other plantation owners, or were married to freed men and women. They thought Georgetown University’s missing slaves were ‘lost.’ The truth was closer to home than anyone knew. 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z The home, listed at $8.5 million, was built in 1796, and soon sold to a plantation owner who entertained George Washington. Childhood home of Robert E. Lee listed at $8.5M 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z The purpose of the meeting was to get better payments for their cotton crops from white plantation owners, wrote Stockley. UALR class scours censuses for massacre escapees 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Part of the problem is the site was also used by Native Americans, French and Spanish settlers, Civil War-era plantation owners and now the federal government to train Marines. Spanish fort in South Carolina threatened by erosion 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z The war began between the big plantation owners and government, who refused unionised labour, and revolutionary groups who eventually took to the jungle to resist them. Colombia: no guns, no drugs, no atrocities, no rape, no murder. Just bananas… 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z So the Jesuits started swapping slaves with local plantation owners. They thought Georgetown University’s missing slaves were ‘lost.’ The truth was closer to home than anyone knew. 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z Critics said the bearded old man’s resemblance to a plantation owner harkened back to slavery. Police say 4 people stole headstone of ex-Ole Miss mascot 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z In A Beer Can Named Desire she played Esme Dauterive, a Louisiana matriarch and plantation owner with the thickest of Southern accents. Meryl's surprising TV back catalogue 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z He was a wealthy plantation owner and steamboat captain. The last U.S. slave ship was burned to hide its horrors. A storm may have unearthed it. 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Historical accounts say an Alabama plantation owner named Timothy Meaher placed a bet that he could sneak a shipful of slaves into the United States and enlisted shipwright William Foster to help him. Alabama reporter discovers possible wreckage of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to reach the U.S. 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Some of them were free; even though Maryland was a slave state, many plantation owners freed their slaves long before the state outlawed slavery after the Civil War. African-American church has a history dating to 1850 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Prehistoric tribes, European explorers, plantation owners and territory-staking pioneers settled near the shores. Coastal waters threaten Florida’s historic resources 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z When I saw 12 Years a Slave, which I will never forget, one of the things that struck me was how stunted and ridiculous the lives of the plantation owners were. Opinion | We’re Sick of Racism, Literally 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z The plantation owners mounted some of the slaves’ heads on sticks along the main road, as a warning to others. A sign on scrubland marks one of America's largest slave uprisings. Is this how to remember black heroes? 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Criticism of palm oil plantation owners and companies like APRIL, Asia’s second-largest pulp and paper firm, intensified after catastrophic 2015 forest fires blanketed the region in choking smog. APRIL halts Indonesia paper unit ops as forestry permit revoked 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Loosely based on “Jane Eyre,” the movie follows a nurse who is hired to care for the catatonic wife of a wealthy sugar plantation owner in the Caribbean. Beyond the Scream: What I Learned from Horror Movies 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z A white student, dressed as a plantation owner, said to a 10-year-old black classmate, “You are my slave,” said the black child’s parent, Corrie Davis. ‘You are my slave:’ School’s Civil War Day sparks mom’s ire 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z She is the great-granddaughter of James Campbell, a sugar plantation owner and one of Hawaii’s largest landowners. Hawaiian heiress, 91, marries woman amid court battle 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Jackson’s character is a slave named Stephen who defends plantation owner Calvin Candie. Ray Lewis: Kaepernick’s girlfriend lost him Ravens job after ‘racist’ ‘Django Unchained’ tweet 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Criticism of palm oil plantation owners and companies like APRIL, Asia’s second-largest pulp and paper firm, intensified after catastrophic 2015 forest fires blanketed the region in choking smog. APRIL halts Indonesia paper unit ops as forestry permit revoked 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z In the film, Jackson plays a loyal slave to DiCaprio’s racist plantation owner. Ray Lewis: Ravens shunned Kaepernick due to 'racist' tweet from girlfriend 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z “If they’re requiring that the costume be as accurate as possible … some kid is going to come to school dressed as a plantation owner,” Davis said in her video. ‘You are my slave:’ School’s Civil War Day sparks mom’s ire 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Many migrants died en route, and at first plantation owners, used to slaves, treated their new workers hardly any better. The legacy of Indian migration to European colonies 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Big plantation owners or owners of grand estates, as in New York state, were mostly absent. Editorials from around New England 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Even the nickname Ole Miss may be an ode to the way things were; some historians think it comes from the name that slaves called the plantation owner’s wife. Ole Miss Edges Out of Its Confederate Shadow, Gingerly 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z No longer a political or social outlier, corporate neo-liberals rather than plantation owners now dominate most of Southern politics. The importance of the fight for the South: Why it can and must be won 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Such structures simply didn’t last the way homes by wealthy plantation owners have, Ward said. House built by and for freed slaves for sale in Columbus 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z Not that a plantation owner needed to walk to the privy. Opinion | Stepping inside Jefferson’s perfect house (no, it’s not Monticello) 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z When not attending the duke, plantation owners or their slaves, Sloane indulged his dream of universal knowledge. Museums: The life and times of a curiosity-monger : Nature : Nature Research 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Several Chinese plantation owners and managers expressed frustration at the government ban, which forbids them from growing bananas after their leases expire. Cash and chemicals: for Laos, Chinese banana boom a blessing and curse 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Then, too, the separation of the Southern plantation owners from the West Indian ones weakened a formidable lobbying force within the Empire. We Could Have Been Canada 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Berry, an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, shows how the commodification of the enslaved began before birth, as plantation owners assessed the pros and cons of purchasing pregnant women. Opinion | How slaves maintained their personal value even while on the auction block 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z He felt islanders would be interested in their Spanish and French neighbors of the 16th century, the Revolutionary War skirmishes, the antebellum plantation owners, the Union occupation during the Civil War, and America’s first freedom. How do you sell Hilton Head? Alligators 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z Jackson, a wealthy slaveholding plantation owner known for his bombast, styled himself as a man of the people, beating the dominant political dynasty of his day to win the presidency. Jackson and Trump: How Two Populist Presidents Compare 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z According to “Manhattan in Maps,” the Carwitham Plan was to be included in a book whose author, a Virginia plantation owner, died before it could be completed. Some Credit for Henry Hudson, Found in a 380-Year-Old Map 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z After reading a history of chattel slavery, Woodfox told the inmates in C.C.R. that Southern plantation owners used to inspect the rectums of the slaves they intended to buy at auction. How Albert Woodfox Survived Solitary 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z But it starts out and he’s a kid, playing with Nat — plantation owners’ kids and slave kids would play together. Armie Hammer is grateful to have touched lives with 'Birth of a Nation' 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z There had been one editorial in the Harvard Crimson student newspaper criticising his decision to read extensively from the diaries of plantation owners in his lectures. Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy | Moira Weigel 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z This exemption dates back to the earliest days of the Republic, when Presidents tended to be wealthy plantation owners with large holdings of land and slaves. Trump’s Businesses Represent an Impossible Conflict of Interest 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Back then, it was a rural outpost, wide-open land tended to by black sharecroppers and white farmers, some of whom were former plantation owners. Northeast Dallas lot may offer clues to old black settlement 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z The plantation owner would also become an important political figure after he was sent to Washington to ask Congress for statehood following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Destrehan Plantation triples in size with 8-acre purchase 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z The first highway to be rebuilt in MS was to the casinos per order of big white plantation owner Haley Barbour. Poor, Displaced and Anxious in North Carolina as Floods Climb After Hurricane 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z States legislated oppressive laws, but the private sector, including slave traders and plantation owners, were equally responsible for the inhumanity African Americans suffered. The African American Museum gives children the whole truth 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The play is his adaptation of an 1859 melodrama, "The Octoroon," a satire that tells the story of a struggling plantation owner, his mixed-race daughter and the enslaved Africans attempting to keep things running smoothly. 15 things to do in the D.C. area on Memorial Day weekend 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The solution turned out to be a sale of at least 272 slaves, from the just born to the elderly, purchased in 1838 by Louisiana plantation owners. University comes to terms with its connection to slave trade 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Self-made and aggressive, he found wealth in the wilds of Tennessee and, like other plantation owners such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, owned slaves. We can celebrate Harriet Tubman without disparaging Andrew Jackson 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z IN 1893 the overthrow of Hawaii’s last monarch, Queen Liliuokalani, involved powerful plantation owners backed by American forces. Paradise sprayed 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The emblem is adorned with the crest of the Royalls, a family of plantation owners and merchants whose donation helped establish Harvard's first law professorship. Harvard Law panel seeks to scrap official seal tied to slave owners 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Police told local media the killings occurred during an attempted robbery, but the family said they had no doubt it was an assassination prompted by Cáceres’s high-profile campaigns against dams, illegal loggers and plantation owners. Berta Cáceres, Honduran environment and human rights activist, murdered 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z After the War of 1812, Coffee became a government surveyor and plantation owner. Volunteers work to restore historic Florence cemetery 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z And I’m not just talking about never forgetting the Big Baddies — plantation owners, human slave traders and the like. Black memorabilia’s sale stirs feelings of both horror and pride 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z One plantation owner, Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Ltd., on Tuesday said it would invest $100 million over 10 years to expand protection and restoration of carbon-rich peat lands in central Sumatra. Indonesia Tries to Douse Fires That Help Fuel Economy 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z This is the Jefferson that we are proud of in 2015, not the plantation owner. What our monuments stand for 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Bringing jobs here threatened the plantation owners who wanted people for cheap labour. Poorest town in poorest state: segregation is gone but so are the jobs 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Burning forest to plant palm oil is illegal in Indonesia but plantation owners often flout the law. Photos: Indonesia’s Rampant Fires Threaten Rare Orangutans 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Southeast Asia’s environmental catastrophe must be the catalyst for transformative solutions, not merely tutting at Indonesia, or hoping plantation owners will follow non-enforceable pledges. Solving Southeast Asia's Choking Haze 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Sports teams are still called the Rebels, but the university several years ago retired the Colonel Rebel mascot — a white-haired old man some thought resembled a plantation owner. Ole Miss Rebels Remove Flag With Confederate Emblem 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Two sugar-cane plantation owners whose names are sprinkled over city landmarks today, Littleberry Ambrose Ellis and Edward H. Cunningham, leased convict labor from the state to work the land under the new post-emancipation arrangement. Houston-area prison cemetery recalls era of forced labor 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Its prior mascot was a bearded plantation owner called Colonel Rebel. If Mississippi Lawmakers Won't Deal With the Flag, Students Will 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Burning forest to plant palm oil is illegal in Indonesia but plantation owners often flout the law. Photos: Indonesia’s Rampant Fires Threaten Rare Orangutans 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Governments must be tougher on plantation owners, and actively provide alternatives. Solving Southeast Asia's Choking Haze 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Now, instead of slaves being branded by plantation owners, the poor must pay to brand themselves. Fear and Clothing: Gun fashion is the inevitable spawn of our gun culture | Cintra Wilson 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z While white plantation owners may have partaken, it was the black slaves who were in the pits working. Black pitmasters left out of US barbeque boom - BBC News 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z Also on display will be the 1836 journal of a cotton plantation owner, a Ku Klux Klan robe dating to around 1920 and a program from the 1963 March on Washington. DuSable exhibit examines African American experience 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Burning forest to plant palm oil is illegal in Indonesia but plantation owners often flout the law. Photos: Indonesia’s Rampant Fires Threaten Rare Orangutans 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Under Malaysian law, a plantation owner is responsible for all workers on its property. Palm-Oil Migrant Workers Tell of Abuses on Malaysian Plantations 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z The sport was centered mostly in the south, and white plantation owners entrusted their prized racehorses to the slaves who worked on their farms and in their stables. CJ McMahon and the rise and fall of the black jockey 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Benjamin Franklin Terry, a Brazoria County plantation owner, assembled the group, which fought in numerous battles and never officially surrendered. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Alaska just changed a census area named for a Confederate general and plantation owner. The U.S. military’s disgraceful devotion to the Confederacy 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Southern Republicans said that their Democratic colleagues did not understand that they were trying to pay tribute to fallen Confederate soldiers who were not plantation owners. As S.C. prepares to lower battle flag, Boehner calls for Confederate review 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Amanda added that plantation owner William Wallace McLeod “was willing to lay his life down to defend slavery, because he knew how it benefited him,” and joined the Charleston Light Dragoons. Clementa Pinckney: Charleston, South Carolina, adds to grim history of city with Southern charm 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z In the early days, Litel said plantation owners in southeast Louisiana began to distill their own crude rum, which the French called “tafia.” Louisiana craft rum rooted in history 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Even though Southern plantation owners held and traded slaves long after, the U.S. American slaves' origins live on in Alabama's Africatown 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z There these rebels, called Maroons, built their own communities, while periodically fighting off troops sent to reclaim the plantation owners’ property. Portraits of the African Diaspora 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z The multinational company said it would begin developing specific time-bound targets for the raw materials it sources this year and would help smallholders, farmers, plantation owners and suppliers to comply with its commitment. Burger giant McDonald's to end deforestation in supply chain 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z “Overseers and plantation owners would use them as a method of punishing and tracking runaway slaves because every time you move, the bell rings.” Harrowing exhibit about slavery in New Orleans 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z It outlines a duty of care owed by plantation owners to their employees, but at the same time it preserves a system of cradle-to-grave dependency. Marooned in an overgrown tea garden 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z In 2012 a tea plantation owner and his wife were burned to death in the neighbouring state of Assam. India tea workers kill boss over pay 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z Pirates and English privateers menaced Cap-Français, the rich colony’s de facto capital, from the north; the plantation owners sought a more protected port in the south. How the World Came to Help Haiti and Left a Disaster 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Zuluaga was backed by cattle ranchers and by palm oil plantation owners, beneficiaries of a deal Uribe made with far-right paramilitaries that dismantled their militias. Santos Re-Elected Colombia President in Peace Vote 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z In November 1834, a 14-year-old girl named Judah, who was a house slave to a Prince George’s County plantation owner, “confessed” to poisoning the owner’s three children and trying to set his mansion on fire. Pr. George’s hopes to boost tourism to heritage sites Soon, more than 1,000 large mills popped up all over Louisiana, as plantation owners realized the windfall of a successful sugar cane crop. Dig turns up bits of history at old sugar mill 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z And Dame Lorraines, busty mockeries of the wives of European plantation owners, once prevalent in Trinidad during Spanish colonial rule in the 18th century. Lens Blog: Carnival’s Essence in Black-and-White 2014-03-04T17:29:39Z In 1791, as revolution tore through metropolitan France, slaves, former slaves, and the mixed-race descendants of slaves and plantation owners rose up. How the World Came to Help Haiti and Left a Disaster 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z You know, the earliest plantation owners in the American South had that problem. Inequality: A defining issue, for poor people 2013-12-16T18:23:07Z The civets’ digestive systems gave a uniquely rich aroma and smooth, rounded flavor — so much so that the Dutch plantation owners soon became die-hard fans. The World's Most Expensive Coffee Is a Cruel Scam 2013-10-02T08:05:24Z Their book, Time on the Cross, suggested that slavery in the American South was a lucrative enterprise for plantation owners. Economic history: Did slavery make economic sense? 2013-09-27T15:37:43Z And, unfortunately, it’s this type of slavery that we have today” — the slavery “American plantation owners dreamed of.” Mauritania- Modern Day Slavery And Health Inequality 2013-07-18T05:57:00Z Let's also remember that many northern States had slavery as well and the slave owners there sold their slaves to plantation owners as they were no longer of any use. Oscar Countdown: How the Legacy of Lincoln Still Influences Politics Today 2013-02-24T00:35:24Z With thoughts of writing a historical novel, she began researching the lives of Sarah and Angelina Grimké, daughters of a wealthy plantation owner, who traveled throughout the United States proselytizing for the American Anti-Slavery Society. Gerda Lerner, Historian, Dies at 92 2013-01-03T20:16:12Z Pressure is also building on PT SCP's parent PT Best Agro International Group, a large unlisted Indonesian palm oil plantation owner, processor and exporter. Insight: Environment or profit - palm oil firm tests Indonesia 2012-07-12T07:46:14Z “It’s sharecropping economics, and it only works for the plantation owner,” said Edward Rogoff, a professor at Baruch College, and himself a former cabby. Gotham: As Pay of Cabbies Drops, a Bid for Their First Raise in Years 2012-07-10T01:57:10Z Sugar cane farmers took their cue from Jamaican plantation owners who imported mongooses to control rat populations. Green Blog: An Invader Advances in Hawaii 2012-06-11T17:07:36Z In addition to the American West, homesteading took place in the South because land confiscated from plantation owners after the Civil War was deemed public land. U.S. marks 150th anniversary of Homestead Act offering free land 2012-05-19T23:45:44Z The visits were made periodically and were quite looked forward to by the plantation owners. Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft 2012-03-16T02:00:21.923Z Upon the outbreak of World War II, many French plantation owners fled. In Laos, a Campaign to Resurrect Great Coffee 2011-09-13T03:55:00Z In a recent “South Park” episode, the scheming Eric Cartman character, in plantation owner’s garb, drops in on a college president for some advice on how to avoid paying slaves. Time to Add Education Back Into the Student-Athlete Equation 2011-08-09T14:55:26Z In Hong Kong, another tree plantation owner, China Forestry, admitted in May that its bank statements and harvesting records had been faked, while its accounts had gone missing. US in push for China audit deal 2011-07-11T10:04:33Z In the South the plantation owners formed an aristocracy whose social lines were drawn with distinctness. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z Many of the men with five-acre plots were already voicing reservations about entering an all-out war with England, especially when its main purpose seemed to be preserving free markets for the big plantation owners' sugar. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z Most of them leased out to plantation owners. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives 2011-05-04T02:00:16.830Z At the Charleston Mercury, a strident mouthpiece for plantation owners at the time of the war, publisher Charles Waring said he wants to "tell our side of the story, come hell or high water". Painful history 2011-04-12T01:52:49Z The University of Mississippi — the same school that endured campus riots when James Meredith became the school's first African-American student in 1962 — ditched its mascot Colonel Rebel, a plantation owner, in 2003. The Civil War's 150th Anniversary Divides the South 2011-03-03T07:20:00Z The large plantation owner usually dealt with some London house, which kept an open account with him, crediting his tobacco against orders for the manufactured articles and luxuries which the Virginia and Maryland gentlemen demanded. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z This plan was followed by a number of plantation owners. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 2011-02-25T03:01:11.447Z Reverend Lafayette Price, ancient and venerable minister of a small, dilapidated church on the outskirts of Beaumont, received his education under his old master, a plantation owner of the South. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 2011-02-25T03:01:02.913Z So when dey brought father back to his owner and asked to buy him, Mr. Lewis said dere wasn't a plantation owner with money enough to pay him for Spot. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives 2011-02-25T03:01:01.877Z Mr. Beil hung tough at the time, likening Mr. Walker to “the plantation owner talking to the slaves.” Union Leader Minces No Words When Labor Issues Are at Stake 2011-02-23T03:01:14Z The large plantation owners, who were almost all members of the Established Church, were in control of the house of burgesses. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z There may once have been a time when great plantation owners despised workers in fields; but that time is past. Your Negro Neighbor 2011-02-14T03:00:35.203Z And though his manager, Tim Clark, compared Hands to a plantation owner soon after the takeover, he later said he wouldn't discount the possibility of Williams re-signing to EMI once his deal expired. Behind the music: What the Citigroup takeover means for EMI 2011-02-02T13:57:39Z In common with most of the larger plantation owners, as I found not only in Georgia, but in other Southern states which I afterward visited, Mr. Brown makes his home in the city. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z He owes his star power to his get-up — a knockoff of the university’s longtime mascot, a caricature of an antebellum Southern plantation owner. Ole Miss Shelves Mascot Fraught With Baggage 2010-09-20T00:35:00Z The White House, he wrote, "shouldn't treat the people who supported Halter's senatorial bid like field hands by talking and acting like plantation owners." National progressives are wrong about Blanche Lincoln 2010-06-17T00:10:00Z Malaysian palm-oil plantation owners count heavily on labor from Bangladesh or Nepal to keep wages low. Thai Immigration Policy Under Fire 2010-03-01T21:45:00Z It followed, therefore, that there were no buyers, and the plantation owners, trusting to the capitulation, decided to wait rather than abandon their flourishing properties. The West Indies and the Spanish Main As a result of the arrest, Fields, in court, entered into contract to work fourteen months for G. W. Broughton, another plantation owner. The Ultimate Criminal The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 17 While I was yet on the border, the plantation owners had to send their cotton to the border to be shipped to other parts, so it was transferred by Negro slaves as drivers. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Texas Narratives, Part 2 It was with exultation that in 1619 the plantation owners were made acquainted with a new means of supplying themselves with adequate workers. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times She was born a slave of the Levi Ray family near Lexington, Mississippi, and was sold as a child to Elihn Boles, a neighboring plantation owner. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 Some plantation owners as an inducement to their tenants were furnishing each with a cow and a sow. Negro Migration during the War The fat plantation owners gorged themselves and jabbered. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China Here or there a plantation owner like my starch and stately grandfather, turned surplus peaches into brandy. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South He envied the honor, wealth, and power landholding brought that ancestor, just as many Virginians today envy the life of the colonial plantation owner. Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion At the rate he was going, he'd be a plantation owner before long. The Helpful Robots The plantation owners of the South exploited the Negroes after they reached the states. The American Empire As there is throughout these forest regions a great want of men, the plantation owners endeavor to get the few Indians who settle voluntarily on their property, fixed to it for ever. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Our master's name was Dixon, and he was a wealthy plantation owner, had lots of property in Hunt County. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 The result is prejudicial to the dealer and the plantation owner, because the fibre discolours. The Philippine Islands Slaves often earned money, too, by splitting rails at night and selling them to different plantation owners. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 They could not own slaves and they had to work for the rich plantation owners. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Perhaps he would find out something from Al Sharkey or the other plantation owner, Rex Sinclair. The Revolt on Venus In some sections of Texas and Mississippi Negro plantation owners are often found. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro This plainly dressed rustic with his bent shoulders is in striking contrast to the prosperous plantation owners, with their powdered hair, ruffled shirts, knee-breeches, and silver shoe-buckles. Stories of Later American History In some instances he lived in the house with the plantation owner. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 All the plantation owners had a colored boy dat did that. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives How deeply this unequivocal condemnation lacerated the feelings of the South, will never be known until the economic necessities and purposes of the large plantation owners are more clearly revealed. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics The plantation owners refused to pay more than thirty or forty cents to a person for a days work in the fields. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 The greater part of the plantation owners were very harsh if we were caught trying to learn or write. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Indiana Narratives The Freedman's Bureau in Augusta gave out the news officially to the negroes, but in most cases the plantation owners themselves summoned their slaves and told them they were free. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 It was shown to me a long time ago that the slavery in the South wasn't started by the plantation owners. The Boy With the U.S. Census The plantation owner may be a merchant-landlord also and may furnish supplies to his tenants. The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution Next day a plantation owner said to one of his men: "Sam, were you in that crowd that gathered last night?" Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations It was a common occurrence for the soldiers to visit the plantation owners and command a certain number of horses and slaves for services such as Acie did. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives At times Mr. Womble hired some of his slaves out to work by the day for some of the other nearby plantation owners. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Sometimes de plantation owner did hit an' sometimes de sheriff. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Mississippi Narratives Aunt Suzy was the property of the Southern plantation owner and had lived on this plantation until she had raised a large family. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives As I could not speak English, my chores were to act as a tutor and companion for the children of Pierce Buckran Haynes, a well known slave trader and plantation owner in Kentucky. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Maryland Narratives The soldiers stripped the plantation owners of their meats, vegetables, poultry and the like. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives "You see," continued Mr. Wright, "in those days a plantation owner was partially judged by the appearance of his house servants." Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Finally, some plantation owners leased convicts from the state and worked them in chain gangs which most closely resembled the prewar slave system. The Black Experience in America The plantation owner came too, but the go-ahead Crockett kind of backwoodsman was typical. Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations When the season was good for the crop and crops plentiful, we had a little money as the plantation owner gave us some to spend. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Maryland Narratives Isaac Pretty, George's father owned a large harness shop at Altoona and made and sold hundreds of dollars worth of saddles and harness to both northern and southern plantation owners. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives And from some letters one gathered that insight into the relations between the plantation owner and the manager who lived there. Sketches of the East Africa Campaign As the shortage of labor became severe, the plantation owners began to import criminals and were willing to accept the poor and the drunks who had been seized from the streets of European ports. The Black Experience in America The wealth was in the hands of scattered plantation owners, and less centered in cities than at the North. History of American Literature Now it chanced that among the cargo carried by the barque was a small launch intended for the use of a plantation owner in South America. The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest He hired himself out to some of the wealthy plantation owners and applied what he earned toward the payment for his freedom. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives Scipio and Edith were sold to Arthur Randolph, a physician and large plantation owner of Fort Louis, about five miles from the capital at Tallahassee. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives The white population consisted of a handful of exceedingly wealthy plantation owners and another handful of white plantation managers. The Black Experience in America He relates the story of the plantation owner who trained his dogs to hunt escaped slaves. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives According to Kemp—Gay was one of the meanest plantation owners in the entire section, and frequently voiced his pride in being able to employ the cruelest overseers that could be found in all Mississippi. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives Cruelties: There was a very wealthy plantation owner who lived near the Davis plantation; he had eleven plantations, the smallest one was cultivated by three hundred slaves. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives Many plantation owners took their own lives in desperation. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives The European governments had tried to solve the problem by requiring the plantation owners to hire a specified number of white workers. The Black Experience in America In some cases the ex-slave was provided with land, tools, and seed by plantation owner who, in turn, was to get a share of the crop at the end of the season. The Black Experience in America American plantation owners were faced with a dilemma. The Black Experience in America |
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