Sentence examples for left plantation from inspiring English sources

Part of its legacy was the forced exodus of displaced sharecroppers, who left plantation life and migrated to Northern cities, adapting to an industrial society with its own set of challenges.

"We are now advising farmers to leave plantations fallow for at least seven years and allow nature to take its course to clean up the infected soil," adds Gajmer.

Earlier thinning schedules or longer rotations can strongly affect biodiversity, as can reserve trees left after plantation harvest to remain through a second rotation.

By then he had left the plantation in southern Alabama where he had been born a slave in 1854, and, after Emancipation, scratched out a living as a sharecropper.

She anticipates the spirit of American modernity: she shunned the harsh, slave-driving temperament of her grandmother; defied Creole tradition by marrying a Protestant; and left the plantation at 29, eventually settling in St . Louis

Nearly 30 years ago Peterson left the plantation and headed West to California.

Many former slaves left the plantations and moved to the nearby hills, where their descendants still farm small landholdings.

After full emancipation in 1838, black freedmen left the plantations to establish their own settlements along the coastal plain.

While John Henry emerges as an everyman - or at least every freed slave who left the plantations for hard, often lethal, labour on the railroads - the novel searches for meanings in the legend: man against machine; an "ideal of black masculinity in a castrating country"; the high price of progress.

Apparently, the boy was forced to leave the plantation and move in with distant relatives named Woodson, who gave him a new last name.

Her great-great grandfather was a stagecoach driver from Virginia and met her great-great grandmother, a freed slave, who wanted to leave her plantation not far from York.