Sentence examples for worked on plantations from inspiring English sources
Fields is a descendant of slaves who worked on plantations in Georgia and Mississippi before relocating to Colony after the Civil War.
People trafficked to work for little or no pay, and forced to live on rubbish heaps and drink water alongside animals, may have worked on plantations that supply the two companies, according to the media and research centre DanWatch.
The crop was introduced in the 19th Century and cultivated by slaves brought from the African mainland, where they worked on plantations, known as rocas.
McQueen's film is an adaptation of Northup's memoir, in which he described the 12 years he worked on plantations in Louisiana, before his eventual release.
Northup worked on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before his release.
This explosive growth resulted in thousands of CAFOs located in the eastern half of the state squarely in the so-called Black Belt, a crescent-shaped band throughout the South where slaves worked on plantations., After emancipation many freed slaves continued to work as sharecroppers and tenant farmers.
The Indians, now around one-tenth, mainly came to work on plantations.
"These children were destined to work on plantations in Gabon.
Among its legacies are the many Caribbean descendants of Indians who migrated to work on plantations.
From the mid-19th century, Gilbert Islanders were recruited to work on plantations elsewhere in the region.
The Spanish therefore brought in blacks and other Indians to work on plantations.
