"plantation" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- John Wesley's father, also named John, was enslaved in Virginia in 1831, when the black Baptist firebrand Nat Turner led the bloody slave rebellion that terrified the whole of the plantation South.
- The main themes have been the class system of the plantation South.
- By conveniently "forgetting" slavery, Northerners have historically absolved themselves of complicity while heaping blame onto the shoulders of the plantation South.
- It is perhaps the depiction of the South before and after the Civil War and its perpetuating and burnishing of the mythic genteel, aristocratic plantation South that accounts for much of the movie's endurance, said Charles Wilson, a professor of history at the University of Mississippi and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.
- In Ms. Gerima's "Sankofa" (1994), the most successful of the three films at the box office, a fashion model on a photo shoot in Ghana time travels back to the horrors of slavery in the plantation South.
- In Britain, working people supported emancipation while some nobles decried it as a recipe for rape and murder in the plantation South.
- Charles A. Beard argued in the 1920s that very long-term economic issues were critical, with the pro-tariff industrial Northeast forming a coalition with the anti-tariff agrarian Midwest against the plantation South.
- Frances Ormond Jones Gaither (May 21 1889 - October 28 1955) was an American novelist whose major works depict slavery in the plantation South.
- But whites in the plantation South took it seriously.
- The Republicans, based in the plantation South, opposed a strong executive power, were hostile to a standing army and navy, demanded a limited reading of the Constitutional powers of the federal government, and strongly opposed the Hamilton financial program.
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