Sentences with phrase «sugar plantation owner»

He was known as a sugar plantation owner and as an active promoter of railroads in the southeast of the United States.

[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.

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That cargo included 1000 breadfruit plants destined for the Jamaican sugar plantations, whose owners were clamouring for a cheap and reliable source of food for their slaves.

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.

Don Pedro remarks that the British are hypocrites because they block slave ships coming into Cuba on the one hand but purchase Cuban sugar and provide loans to the plantation owners on the other.