A baseball game at a Southern plantation featuring black players was different.
Splurge Youngsters hit Camp Hyatt, with arts and crafts, movies and beach activities, while the parents hit Merriman's, an elegant restaurant on an old Kauai plantation featuring farm to table food.
In rides, the most important plantation feature in determining solar radiation levels and plant diversity was ride width.
The American version flourished in the 1840's, when large Southern plantations featured Greek Revival mansions with grand verandas, followed by a proliferation of porches on smaller houses throughout the country, a sign of more leisure time.
Vineyards and tea plantations are features of the regional economy.
One plantation scene, featuring men harvesting coconuts and a grinning woman wielding a scythe, is dated to 1942 – before Siatous was born.
Plantation houses featured music as entertainment at balls, dances and other gatherings.
The case of tasajo - a salt-cured beef produced in the Pampas and shipped to the Caribbean as cheap protein for slave labourers on sugar plantations - featured in chapter 6, is a great example of the fruits of Sluyter's original research.
Fox Hollow, modeled on the antebellum Rosedown plantation in Louisiana, features an imposing white-columned brick residence, an overgrown trellis-archway, fenced-in sloping meadows and a long one-story outbuilding where the prize-winning basset hounds raised by Ms. Hall used to live.
Directed by the British artist Steve McQueen, the film version casts Chiwetel Ejiofor as Northup and Michael Fassbender (the star of McQueen's two previous features) as plantation owner Edwin Epps.
For many years, I was puzzled by African-Americans who collected Sambo and Mammy figurines, plantation grotesques whose distorted features expressed the prevailing arguments for slavery and segregation.
