Kicked out of her family's home, exiled from plantation society, she headed to New York.

It has been well attested that New World slave - plantation society was the laboratory of modern racism.

Martinique - The island was first settled by France in 1635 and evolved into a plantation society.

The region had very few urban places apart from Charleston, where a merchant elite maintained close connections with nearby plantation society.

The novel describes in blunt language, the cultural stress the old plantation society and former slaves have in adjusting to the post war reconstruction.

Although commerce thrives this is still a plantation society.

Rediscovering the architecture of the fazenda has uncovered much about the plantation society's attitude toward style, luxury and nature.

Unlike many other Caribbean islands, no plantation society evolved on Aruba.

The sugar monoculture and slave-worked plantation society characterized Jamaica throughout the eighteenth century.

The extreme treatment was eventually regulated by slave codes, but plantation society remained tied to the rule of the whip.