Sentences with phrase «former plantation owner»
But following the defeat of the Confederacy, much of the land was returned to those same former plantation owners.
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The former owner of a sugar plantation, he's been imprisoned by Fidel Castro for 20 years while she's emigrated to the United States.
Others among the supporting cast are used more effectively — Paul Giamatti and Paul Dano as respectively — a callous slaver and plantation foreman, and Alfre Woodward, striking in her few onscreen minutes, as a former slave, now married to a plantation owner.
At the time, I knew several things about Forrest: How the former slave trader and plantation owner rose to the rank of general during the Civil War.
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.