Kingsley Plantation

Anna Kingsley, a woman of strength and determination overcame many odds not expected of an African American slave. She married a slave owner, owned land, and was once a slave herself. She was well known in a free black community she helped establish. Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley was the wife of plantation owner Zephaniah Kingsley. She was the daughter of a man of high status. Her father’s sides were descendants of the well know Njaajan Njaay, the creators of the Jolof Empire. Her father was killed

something that can be easily forgotten and the importance of it cannot be understated. Slavery was simply the bondage of peoples who were then forced into labor on farms or in the city. Believe it or not, slavery did exist outside the standard cotton plantation and tobacco farms in the South. Slavery was all over the southern part of the country whether on a farm or in the ever-expanding cities. Slaves could also be found in small farms and towns.

The statistics back then 1600’s “37,000 whites and 6,000 blacks”. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2014). The sugar plantations increased the profit for the earlier settlers, because in this era sugar was uncommon. The money that entered Barbados from the sugar plantations brought political power to the owners who were controlling the economic aspects as well as in governmental offices. Land owners made it known to the slaves that they were

she was and what she had to do. Therese was an independent woman who had no qualms about speaking her mind. She had pride in what she believed in and didn’t let others come in the way of that. Eventually, David Hosmer, one of the workers on the plantation,

The Lives of Rural Slaves in Brazilian Sugar Plantations Throughout the 16th century, as there was a demographic collapse of the indigenous population, there was now a new demand for slave labor in Latin America. In Brazil, the Portuguese needed a large workforce to cultivate sugar plantations. As a result, numerous slaves from Africa were imported to work on large plantation fields. In various plantations, rural slaves experienced harsh working and living conditions. Few slaves had a high life expectancy

The novel, The Polished Hoe, written by Austin Clarke unravels a narrative filled with slavery, sexual and gender discrimination, labor hardships, and sexism. Throughout a story that unfolds in 24 hours, the author animates a tale of a crime narrated by Mary-Mathilda, a sexually abused slave descendent, in order to display the disturbing colonial history of the fictional Caribbean island of Bimshire. By using the legacy of colonialism and slavery, Clarke headlines the power dynamic and oppression

about his early life and family structure, except that he had three brothers. Since he could not afford to attend a university in Korea, Kwon applied to work on Hawaii’s sugar plantations. In 1905, the year that the Korean labor supply to Hawaii was cut off, he successfully immigrated as a seventeen-year-old sugar plantation laborer with the hopes of fleeing poverty (Pai 4, Takai 238). Approaching his mid 20’s as a young bachelor, he was working as a yardboy for a Mr. Hackfeld when his picture bride

to decide she was the cause of the disgrace to his name and home, and from that point grew cold hearted and shunned them away. During the time this story was set it would have been unheard of for a powerful white couple who owned a large cotton plantation to have a mixed baby. The characters of Desiree and Armand are opposites of each other. Armand cares more for his name and status than the love of a woman who cares deeply for him. He doesn’t see or doesn’t care that his relationship with

During the time of slavery, planters and plantation organizers had two types of labor systems. The Gang System and the Task System. The two differed greatly in that the gang system tasked slaves to work all day, from sunrise to sunset, allowing for breaks for lunch and dinner. Louisiana Sugar Plantations provided the most typical example of the gang system in the American South. Slaves were expected to labor up to twenty-four hours straight during harvest periods. Heat exhaustion and accidents were

the heterogeneous region has been its plantations. The plantations were an important aspect of the cultural history of the Caribbean. Mintz believed that the plantations tied the colonies in the Caribbean to the European country that was colonizing it. He states: "the plantation system was an agricultural design for the production of export commodities for foreign markets- a means for introducing agricultural capitalism to