How To Use Plantation owner In A Sentence
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A millionaire plantation owner and slave trader, Forrest joined the Confederate army as a private in June 1861 and bulled his way up the ranks to general.
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Behind the high walls, hidden by a long screen of ilexes, you are suddenly back in the eighteenth century, surrounded by the obelisks and mausolea of sea captains and corsairs, exiled aristocrats and shipwrecked plantation owners.
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The plantation owner has possessed himself of a vast piece of land.
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But soon the plantation owners got in on the act, and often they would venture down to the clearing in the piney woods behind their carriage houses and watch the slaves couple-off and perform the dance.
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The plantation owners, although willing to violate organisational rules in normal times, closed ranks in times of troubles.
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He was born into a family of plantation owners and the family's beautiful villa is kept in pristine condition for visitors.
The Sun
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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
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Based on a play by W. Somerset Maugham, this melodrama stars Bette Davis as a rubber-plantation owner's wife in Singapore who commits a deadly crime of passion.
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The plantation owner has possessed himself of a vast piece of land.
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At other points over the preceding few days, though, he fully lost it, denouncing the idea of appeasing the Democratic conference and publicly initiating a lusty exchange of insults with other officials, during which he was called a "yenta" and a plantation owner.
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The outsiders are now the representatives of the old South, the plantation owner up on the hill, whose cheek receives the famous slap; those good old boys who chase Tibbs into the abandoned warehouse; the stupid counterman at the diner who refuses to serve him; and, ironically, Bill Gillespie.
On the symbolic nature of a broken air conditioner: In The Heat of the Night and the rise of the New South
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Other evidence suggests that large plantation owners were the only segment of the population to profit so greatly.
America Past and Present
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Most African Americans in the cotton parishes worked as sharecroppers or tenants, closely supervised by plantation owners or managers.
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Southern plantation owners "discriminated" against African Americans by not paying them for their work.
Balkinization
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He was a Southern plantation owner in 1963, a loutish, rich 24-year-old out on the town.
Archive 2009-01-01
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Like oxtail, which is more common, both of those are in keeping with so-called "fifth quarter" cuts - the parts rejected by plantation owners of old.
The Clog
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The plantation owner has possessed himself of a vast piece of land.
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But both Eva and St Clair die, and Tom is sold again, this time to a brutal cotton plantation owner, Simon Legree, who finally beats the unprotesting Tom to death just before Shelby's son arrives to redeem him.
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The plantation owner has possessed himself of a vast piece of land.
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Reading intertextually, there is no more mystery to YHVH's ways here than there is to those of European plantation owners shipping slaves to the New World.
Archive 2006-02-01
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Behind the high walls, hidden by a long screen of ilexes, you are suddenly back in the eighteenth century, surrounded by the obelisks and mausolea of sea captains and corsairs, exiled aristocrats and shipwrecked plantation owners.
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He had no executive experience—Washington was a former commander-in-chief and plantation owner; Jefferson was getting valuable training as chief wirepuller of an opposition party.
America's First Dynasty
