Sentences with phrase «most plantation owners»
Most plantation owners knew that you could get much more productivity and loyalty from a person you treated well.
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Key supporting work comes from David Oyelowo as the couple's Black Panther son, Vanessa Redgrave as the plantation owner of the butler's youth, Robin Williams as Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Cusack as Richard Nixon, Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan and — most amusingly of all — Jane Fonda as Nancy Reagan.
As part of their labor series, their documentation has covered the cruel conditions of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, a former slave - breeding plantation named for the African nation from which «the most profitable» slaves, according to slave owners, were kidnapped.
The immediate negative effects of palm oil plantations are clear: loss of critical land and water resources for forest - dependent communities; increased conflicts between customary land owners and palm oil companies; and mass deforestation resulting in habitat loss for some of the world's most engendered species.