Sentence examples for plantation to from inspiring English sources
It was different from state to state, plantation to plantation.
In 1863, a freed slave fled from a plantation to Washington.
At age 11, she would ride from her father's plantation to Monticello to check on the vegetables and fruits.
Often, that food has already travelled thousands of miles, from foreign plantation, to supermarket depot, to high-street shop.
He and Mrs. Gaines had it moved from one part of the old plantation to their new backyard.
What has provoked Patsey's most brutal beating is her visit to another plantation to borrow a bar of soap.
In this system, employers or labour agents advanced a sum to workers, who would then have to labour on a ranch or plantation to pay off their debt.
In 1901, Indiana Fletcher Williams left her entire estate, a former plantation, to establish Sweet Briar in memory of a daughter who died at age 16.
Healy was one of 10 children born on a Georgia cotton plantation to an Irish immigrant and his common-law wife, a mixed-race slave.
In 1958, Ms. Livingston sold her plantation to Laurance S. Rockefeller, who built a midcentury-modern hotel, naming it Dorado Beach.
Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes transported the reader from an African village to a Deep South plantation, to the polyglot crowds of Halifax (N.S).
