Sentence examples for plantation work from inspiring English sources

Their ancestors arrived mostly as indentured labour from India to replace Africans in plantation work.

The promises of job creation remain unfulfilled as plantation work at best offers menial low-paid jobs.

Subsequent free white immigration, especially for plantation work in the early 20th century, once again transformed Cuba into a mainly white society with a Hispanic culture.

Many places sell traditional sweetgrass baskets, originally used for plantation work, such as winnowing rice, but here a handsome museum display puts them in historical context.

"Rejoice and Shout," which initially seems rambling and digressive, snaps into focus once it begins relating a chronological history of a genre that evolved out of the fusion of plantation work songs and Christian hymns.

Since the early 1600's, Britain had been keeping its prison population under control by sending convicts across the Atlantic, where their labor was sold to settlers for plantation work.

Similarly, the first scholarships were endowed by profits from a plantation worked by slaves in New England, and the scholarships, as well as a college, are named for the plantation owner George Berkeley.

In the 19th century, Leopold II of the Belgians turned much of the Congo into a vast rubber plantation, worked by slaves whose hands were chopped off if they slacked.

The film followed the lives of a number of prisoners in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, a former slave plantation worked by men and women stolen from Angola, Africa, hence the prison's dark sobriquet.

This 8,000-acre 8,000-acree-thisland which is protected by the Nature Conservancy, was settled in the 17th century by the English, whofdisplaced Indians and built a food and timber plantation whichd by Afrisan slaves.

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