Sentence examples for plantation whose from inspiring English sources

Writer visits Middleton Place, the famous plantation, whose rice paddies were built and operated by slaves... Tells about Jefferson's gardening notebooks..

The plantation eventually came under white ownership, but it is rare today to find a plantation whose nonwhite residents are so well remembered.

He read an article in The Guardian about a palm oil plantation whose owners had evicted 120 families from the land they had farmed for more than 10 years.

And when the emotional tempest finally descends, there some classic southern moments in this seminary which seems to look much like a plantation whose gardens are shot with slanting rays of golden sunlight, in the traditional style.

As Patsey, a slave at a Louisiana plantation whose life is triply cursed by her master's lust and his wife's sadistic jealousy, Nyong'o showed the raw desperation that Chiwetel Ejiofor's Solomon Northup buried beneath stoic forbearance.

Grace Howardd) arrives with her glowering father (Willem Dafoe) at Manderlay, a secluded cotton plantation whose imperious mistress (Lauren Bacall) has neglected to tell the black servants that slavery was abolished 60 years before.

Another is to visit some of the Fairtrade coffee farms and tea plantations whose workers are opening up their homes to tourism to supplement their meagre income.

She was instrumental in the Rainforest Action Network's work persuading many food companies — General Mills most prominent among them — to renounce the use of palm oil, which is grown on plantations whose proliferation abets the destruction of rain forests in Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea.

During antebellum years, slaves cleared primeval cypress swamps, making Georgetown a hub for vast plantations whose indigo dye and "Carolina Gold" rice created one of the richest cities in America.

There is a lot of research that remains to be done there on the native settlements that once surrounded the site and the early tobacco plantations whose addictive stimulant crop fostered the economic boom that ultimately preserved the colony.

In rural Ethiopia, the government has opened vast tracts of land to foreign investors from Saudi Arabia, India and China, and has also allotted enormous tracts to government-owned sugar plantations — whose returns enrich regime insiders.