Sentence examples for their plantations from inspiring English sources

At great risk, slaves in the Confederacy deserted their plantations to join the Union armies.

There was no high ground worth mentioning, and planters had to live on their plantations.

Members agreed instead to develop a voluntary program for growers to measure the greenhouse gases generated by their plantations.

The antebellum gentry gave it the nickname they'd heard slaves use for the mistress of their plantations: Ole Miss.

Before leaving, Jackson detached an element to march the runaways back to their plantations, turning the Confederate army into Georgia-men.

The whites on their plantations had done this directly, exploiting the land they owned with the forced labor of their slaves.

(They had recently hosted her on their plantation in Malaya, but she barely remembers them now).

Dismal Swamp guerillas helped provision Union forces with beef and corn obtained in their plantation raids.

"We were prepared to give up," Borsato told me one afternoon, as he and his farm manager, Mark Smith, showed me around their plantation.

Although few paternalists practiced what they preached — slave families, for instance, were regularly broken up at the auction block — many nonetheless held fast to the notion that their slaves were loyal members of their plantation family.

Harris S. Greeno was aware of Ross's dissatisfaction with the Confederacy, and he ordered the arrest of Ross and his family at their plantation home, Rose Cottage, in present-day eastern Oklahoma.