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    Bibliography: Bradford‚ William. (1650). History of Plymouth Plantation. Brands‚ HWA‚ Breen‚ THH‚ Williams‚ R. Hal and Gross‚ A. J.(2009) American Stories: A History of the United States. Upper Saddle River‚ New Jersey. Smith‚ John. (1604). The Settlement of Jamestown. Winthrop‚ John. (1630). A Model of Christian

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    Starting in 1878‚ many of those of the Portuguese culture immigrated to Hawaii to find better work in sugarcane plantations. A lot of Hawaiian history‚ culture‚ and traditions came from the base of Portuguese celebrations and they have helped form Hawaii into the island it is today. In 1876‚ a man named Jacinto Pereira made a suggestion to the owners of the Plantation Society‚ that the Azores and the Madeira Islands were a lot like that of the Hawaiian Islands. In the economy of the Azores and

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    Sugar Plantation John Barrett‚ an 18th-century plantation owner in Trelawny‚ Jamaica. February 14‚ 1782 The slaves are quite busy as we are at the height of the crop season. Late last year‚ the former owner did some renovation to the various factory buildings including the boiling house‚ the distillery‚ the curing house and the trash house. These various buildings play an integral role in the manufacturing process for sugar. The boiling house is important as this is where the sugar cane juice

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    The Colonial Williamsburg has been an attraction for a long time and teaches many facts about Colonial Williamsburg. It informs all visitors about the buildings that had important influences in the making of Colonial Williamsburg. These buildings were the Capitol‚ Magazine‚ Governors Palace‚ and Bruton Parish Church. They were all very interesting‚ but the one that has the most significance to Colonial Williamsburg is the Capitol. The Capitol deserves the commemorative coin as it had served for government

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    1. Orphaned both from parents and grandparents‚ he and older sister Alice were raised by their uncle Robert Bradford. 2. William Bradford returned to Amsterdam temporarily in 1613‚ to marry his 16 year old bride‚ Dorothy May. 3. William Bradford predicted to his friends and family that he would die‚ and he did the next day‚ May 9‚ 1657‚ at the age of 68. 2. William Bradford was the head of the government of Plymouth. He oversaw the courts‚ the colony’s finances‚ corresponded with investors

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    Plantation Society and Creole Society There is a vast range of cultural diversity in the Caribbean today. In this paper‚ I would be discussing the similarities and differences found between the plantation society model and the Creole society model. The plantation model was developed in the late 1960’s. According to the book Mustapha (2009)‚ the plantation system played a dominant role in the economic‚ social‚ political and cultural life of the Caribbean. George Beckford (1972) saw the plantation

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    The Myrtles Plantation was built in 1794 by a general called David Bradford‚ where it was a hide out for him and his family too (Taylor and Wiseheart). Everything was normal day to day life until David joined the Whiskey Rebellion in 1799 and some say that the George Washington sent people to hunt him down (Taylor Wiseheart). Knowing that his life was too precious he traveled to St. Francisville in 1796 buying him 600 acres of land to build a home (Taylor Wiseheart). The eight roomed home was named

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    The forgotten ones “at the cemetery‚ /walnut grove plantation‚ /south carolina‚ 1989” The poem at the cemetery‚ walnut grove plantation‚ south carolina‚ 1989 by Lucille Clifton is a six stanza poem with many repetitions throughout the poem conveying the idea of how the slaves that worked in the walnut plantation were forgotten and not honored. The speaker of the poem‚ who is taking a tour around the plantation and cemetery‚ expressed anger throughout the poem as the tension slowly escalates ending

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    II. Of Plymouth Plantation: Summary and Commentary Bradford‚ William was one of the Pilgrim leaders and American colonial governor‚ born in Austerfield‚ Yorkshire‚ England. In 1606 he joined the Separatists‚ a dissident Protestant sect. Three years later‚ in search of freedom of worship‚ he went with them to Holland‚ where he became an apprentice to a silk manufacturer. Bradford sailed on the Mayflower in 1620‚ and after his arrival in America he helped found Plymouth Colony. In April 1621 he

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    In the book “Life on the plantation” by Richard Worth it Proclaims “ The harsh conditions on the slave ships and the lack of food undermined the health of female slaves. This meant they could often bear few children when they reached North America” ( Worth 30 ). The females aboard

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