No one went near the plantation, for, as you know, the natives have a very lively horror of the disease, and in the old days when it was discovered the sufferer was killed; but sometimes, when the village boys were scrambling about the hills, they would catch sight of the white man, with his great red beard, wandering about.
I had a plantation on the peninsula, and I wanted a white overseer.
The curtain went up on the first act of "A Magnolia Flower," revealing a typical Southern plantation scene.
Jonathan has lived at Plantation House, the residence of St Helena's governor, ever since he arrived on the island 141 years ago.
When he arrived in the New World in 1519, he soon established his own cocoa plantation.
Last month the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and other government research institutes released the findings of nearly three decades of study in areas with different climate, soil conditions and plantation habits.
The initial setting of the story is a slave plantation () in Georgia, in the south of the US.
"It was on his grave, my friends, that I resolved, before God, that I would never own another slave, while it was possible to free him; that nobody, through me, should ever run the risk of being parted from home and friends, and dying on alonely plantation, as he died.
William Bradford (1590 - 1657), Of Plymouth Plantation O Winter!
When he arrived in the New World in 1519, he soon established his own cocoa plantation.