Sentence examples for plantation granted from inspiring English sources
Most of this area was part of two plantations: Dell's Bluff, granted by the Spanish Florida government in 1801, and a tract eventually known as Magnolia Plantation, granted in 1815.
They displaced the natives, through disease or force, and decided to plant rice and indigo on the plantation lands granted to them through their royally connected patrons.
The government extended massive loans at favorable interest rates to plantation owners and lavishly granted titles and lesser honors to curry favor with influential political figures who had become disaffected.
He made available massive loans at favorable interest rates to plantation owners and lavishly granted titles and lesser honors to curry favor with influential political figures who had become disaffected.
Yet huge swaths of Indonesia's rainforests and peatlands have been cleared for palm oil and paper plantations, with additional concessions granted for mining and agricultural purposes.
Unlike most African nations, Ethiopia was never colonized in the 19th century but instead was ruled by emperors, who granted feudal plantations to members of their royal courts.
Céspedes was born into a prominent plantation family who had been granted their Cuban estate in 1517.
Plantation involved confiscated territory being granted to new landowners on the condition that they would establish settlers as their tenants and that they would introduce English law and the Protestant religion.
It was beautifully written, but can you imagine a contemporary novel about a plantation that just took slavery for granted and dealt only with the lives of the slave owners?
They also granted numerous concessions for large plantations, as well as smaller farms, on land acquired from the Natchez.
This past summer during an interview with Bill O'Reilly on "The O'Reilly Factor," West likened the Democratic party to a plantation, "where the Democrat party has forever taken the black vote for granted, and you have established certain black leaders who are nothing more than the overseers of that plantation".
