Sentences with phrase «island plantation owners»

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[8] Lawyer, representative to the General Assembly from Baton Rouge, and eventual Judge Daniel Avery, who was also joint owner of the Petit Anse Island sugar plantation, and Deer Range sugar plantation owner Maunsel White, became colleagues.

Through the differences between James and Terence, or Caesar's experience of Virginia and Randall Island, or Cora's journey, it shows the way its conventions varied from state to state, or from master to master, and therefore the ultimate cruelty of traumatic disorientation, never knowing what to expect, as slaves were sold from one plantation to another, since there were no restraints on just how viciously an owner might punish or even torture a slave for how slight a transgression.What might be acceptable in one place isn't in another.

However, in 1942 a devastating hurricane hit the island reeking havoc on the houses and flattening many of the coconut plantations, forcing many laborers and plantation owners to seek new professions.