Sentences with phrase «about plantation life»

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What it's about: A mixture of live action and animation, «Song of the South» encompasses several stories about living on a plantation during the Reconstruction Era.

I live on a plantation in Africa... so I get what you are talking about.

Of course, it's a coincidence that Django Unchained arrives in the same season as Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, the second of two Spielberg films about slavery (after 1997's Amistad) that never expose audiences to the harsh realities of plantation life?

What about that man, the last slave to live on the plantation where Eli Whitney first dreamed up the idea for the cotton gin?

The always - brilliant Isabelle Huppert is the matriarch of a white family about to be kicked off their African plantation, trying desperately to hold onto the crop of coffee beans they've grown as their lives hang in danger.

While the film and the memoir have been given the unfair label of being ONLY ABOUT «slavery is bad» (as if that fact alone would not be worthy) many of the more subtle points have been ignored, but is best summed up this way, «It is notable not only for its lucid description of plantation life, with detailed passages on the methods by which cotton and sugarcane were harvested and processed, and how slaves were fed, housed and punished, but also for the author's evenhanded treatment of his subject: although he denounces slavery as an institution, Northup expresses his gratitude to the masters who treated him with gentleness and generosity, and shows a surprising ability to forgive even the most unimaginable cruelties.»

This is a feel - good story about the determination of a humble Japanese - American schoolteacher, Soichi Sakamoto, who barely knew how to swim himself but taught the sport to underprivileged children living on the sugar plantations of Hawaii during the 1930s and 1940s.

Coffee fans will enjoy visiting the Kona Coffee Living History Farm, where you'll learn about Kona's coffee industry, and Kauai Coffee Company, Hawaii's largest coffee plantation.

National Historic Site, where you'll learn more about the man and his legacy; Charleston's Boone Hall Plantation & Gardens, America's most photographed plantation and where you'll tour the mansion, see the slave cabins, and visit the beautiful gardens; and Savannah's American Prohibition Museum, bringing the roaring 20s to life.

The first part of the tour takes guests along beautiful Ka`anapali Beach to learn about ancient Hawaiian villages and early 20th century plantation life before the resorts were built.

As well as seeing Machu Picchu they will be the guests of local communities and visit their coffee plantations, learning about rural life in the high Andes.