plantation
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Audubon, who was born in Haiti and grew up in France, moved to Pennsylvania where he lived on his father's plantation.
From BBC • May 1, 2026
For the next few years, George labored in Creek territory before asking to be relocated to a plantation in Silver Bluff, S.C., where his life took a major turn.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Mr. Rood tells us, that the plantation model reached “the apotheosis of the form.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Daniel Rood gives short shrift to such “historically amnesiac tourism”; with “In the Shadow of the Great House,” he provides a provocative history of the plantation, one that spans continents and centuries.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Slant’s childhood and youth were spent upon a tobacco plantation presided over by a benevolent widow by the name of Croak and her son, who was of Slant’s age.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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