Sentences with phrase «cotton plantation»

The city was founded by investors across a number of industries, including cotton plantation owners, bankers and railroad entrepreneurs, and still have a diverse economy.

The city was founded by investors across a number of industries, including cotton plantation owners, bankers and railroad entrepreneurs, and still have a diverse economy.

When the light bulb was created, Proctor & Gamble owned a lot of cotton plantations realized that their cottonseed oil would no longer be in high demand for use in candles and lamps.

In The Underground Railroad (Doubleday), our third fiction finalist, Colson Whitehead follows the path of smart and resilient Cora, a young, third - generation slave who flees a Georgia cotton plantation only to discover, on each stop along a strange and vividly realized Underground Railroad, another shocking outbreak of racial tyranny and a new surge in the battle for freedom.

Steve McQueen to direct 12 Years a Slave, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor as a mixed - race New Yorker who spent more than a decade on a Louisiana cotton plantation after being kidnapped.

The film is based on the autobiography of Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a freeman kidnapped into slavery, and Nyong» o's performance as Patsey, a young slave who's become the object of obsession for sadistic cotton plantation Master Edwin Epps, played by Michael Fassbender, is easily one of the most arresting acting debuts in recent memory.

But as the stories of Eliza's life as a slave on a southern cotton plantation and her daring escape from her slaveholders come to light, Johanna's respect, then love, builds for her peer.

We learn in the opening scene that cotton plantation matriarch Mary Toliver has unexpectedly changed her will at the end of her life.

I have co-authored / edited several history books produced by my publishing company and recently released my first work of fiction, a novel about a time travelling, slave owning cotton plantation owner.

Cheshire Hall: A key historic attraction in Providenciales, this is the site of a former cotton plantation that dates back to the late 1700's.

The attractions here include the remains of old cotton plantations and other buildings, caves with unusual limestone formations and lighthouses at both ends of the atoll.

You can also visit ruins of Loyalist cotton plantations, like the 18th - century Deveaux House on land granted to Colonel Andrew Deveaux in 1783 for protecting Nassau from Spanish invasion and occupation, and ancient railroad tracks stretching out to the sea.

You can visit the Caicos Conch Farm, the historic ruins of Cheshire Hall cotton plantation, the Grand Turks Lighthouse, explore the most extensive cave system in the Caribbean or visit «the hole» a 40 foot natural hole with a swimming hole at the bottom.

Immigrants from the U.S. had arrived in hopes of starting cotton plantations.

Cotton plantations litter the landscape.

In Whitehead's commanding and imaginative novel, smart and resourceful Cora flees a Georgia cotton plantation only to discover, on each stop along an actual Underground Railroad running in tunnels beneath Southern soil, yet another horrific variation on racial tyranny.

These historic cities continue to provide a glimpse of the wealth and importance of cotton plantations and the commerce that was prominent in the 1800's.

It's like in the days of slavery: if you went to a cotton plantation and asked the slaves and slaveowners who they thought made better slaveowners and better slaves, you would EXPECT them to say, «White people are better slave owners and Africans make better slaves.»

The island is mostly inhabited by ex-pats, but Turks & Caicos Islanders are mostly descendants of Africans who were brought in to work the salt pans or the cotton plantations.

The European settlers established tobacco and cotton plantations, and during the 1630s, sugar cane was introduced to the agriculture.

Born on a cotton plantation in the Deep South, he watched his mother (Mariah Carey) raped and his father (David Banner) brutally murdered before he was taken inside the big house by the one of the white women (Vanessa Redgrave) and trained to be a houseboy.

Cotton plantation, sultry afternoon after a hard day's work.

Nightjohn (1996), adapted by Bill Cain from a novel for young adults by Gary Paulsen, is the story of Sarny (Allison Jones), a young house slave on a cotton plantation, who is taught to read by Nightjohn (Carl Lumbly), a slave who escaped to the north but returned to captivity to teach others what he knew.

Born into slavery, the boy is taught to read by the wife of the owner of the cotton plantation he lives on.

Northup is overseen by several different slave masters (played by Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano and Michael Fassbender) on a cotton plantation.

Never having known what the life of a slave is like, he soon finds out that an educated and talented (and opinionated) black slave in the South is viewed as more of a liability than an asset to prejudiced and jealous plantation owners, which gets him into trouble, and makes his situation go from bad to far, far worse when he ends up working for a cruel slave - breaking owner of a cotton plantation named Edwin Epps (Fassbender, Prometheus).

McQueen's juxtaposing of scenes of Northup on a cotton plantation with his happier times as a well - respected free man only heighten just how terrible the conditions are for the enslaved African population in the South.

When we last checked in with Leila Meacham she had just published Roses, her epic novel that spans 70 years in the history of the Toliver family, owners of a cotton plantation in Texas.

The Underground Railroad centers on Cora, a third - generation slave on a Georgia cotton plantation.

From prize - winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia.

Roses by Leila Meacham (640 pages) Roses traces nearly 70 years in the history of the Toliver family, owners of a cotton plantation in a fictional Texas town.

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia.

On September 13, he'll be publishing his first straight - up historical novel, set on a cotton plantation in Georgia during the 1800s.

A story of a young slave Cora working on a cotton plantation in Georgia.

The Maya who settled throughout the island and developed an economy based on trading and exploitation of the marine resources had practically nothing in common with the pirates who succeeded them, or with the British agriculturists who marshalled their slaves in a futile attempt to convert the island into a cotton plantation.

Hacienda San Jose was a sugarcane and cotton plantation that imported slaves from Africa and has an underground network of tunnels.

You'll also find miles of undisturbed sandy beaches, coral gardens, limestone caves, magnificent cliffs and even remnants of slave and cotton plantations.

Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution came next to the island, and by the 1790's cotton plantations had sprung up, serviced by the notorious save trade.

A Southerner raised on a cotton plantation in the Mississippi Delta, Eggleston has created a singular portrait of his native South.

BORN CIRCA 1853 - 55 on a cotton plantation in Benton, Ala., Traylor worked as a sharecropper after Emancipation.

William Eggleston was raised on a cotton plantation in Mississippi and he began to experiment with color photography in the late 1960s, despite the mainstream bias toward black and white photography.