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Life on the plantation can be calm. You can even be happy and find fulfillment on the plantation. It may be possible to be friends with the plantation owner. Heck, the plantation owner might even let you run the plantation. But, all of these privileges are only afforded to you as long as you stay on the plantation. – Link Starbureiy	added by anonymous 9 months ago
The dominant narrative is that because California was a free state, it had nothing to do with slavery, but we've invited people to give expert and personal testimonies on how California was actually complicit in maintaining the institution of slavery, including during the Gold Rush, when Southern plantation owners would take enslaved people to California to mine for gold, despite what the state's constitution said. – Kamilah Moore	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We can't ignore the image conjured by the word plantation, we can't ignore how painful that is for Black Rhode Islanders to see that and have to see that as part of their state's name. – Gina Raimondo	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Well, you know, the original banjos were all handmade instruments. Gourd - it would be made with gourds and whatever, you know, materials would have been around. And, you know, first hundred years of its existence, the banjo's known as a plantation instrument, as a black instrument. – Rhiannon Giddens	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
The trees need more sun. The weather is too wet in the plantation, brown rot is a concern for farmers. – Raphael Kouame	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It [the leasing program] was a way of getting African-Americans into the system so plantation owners could have cheap labor. – Ken Brown	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Except that Andrew Jackson was a plantation owner that also owned slaves. – Symone Sanders	Found on CNN 6 years ago
When I am better, I will go back to my plantation. I can't do anything else. I have to eat. – Bienvenu Bago	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
It is not a surprise as the Australia Bureau of Meteorology has formally announced the El Nino since May 2015. Hence, the market had already look ahead into lower FFB production by plantation companies, the net impact to earnings is not expected to be huge, as CPO prices usually increase during the period of insufficient supply globally. Historically, the impact of CPO prices to earnings will more than offset the loss in FFB production. – Alan Lim	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Using fires is the cheapest method to prepare a plantation, when you have no money, you go (for) the cheapest way. – Mansuetus Alsy Hanu	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Those big scale companies are also eager to expand their operations into the adjacent peatland, whether they deliberately set the fire, or they can also ask people in the communities around their areas to burn the land, that's also a possibility. And then at the end, those burned areas are proposed as the expansion of their plantation. – Yuyun Indradi	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I became interested in Cuba hearing the stories of my great-grandparents and my grandmother. She lived until she was about 11 or 12 on a small sugar plantation in Chaparra, in eastern Cuba. – The Rev. Gilbert Walker	Found on CNN 8 years ago
From the time of the Southern plantation owners, there have been a small group of people in the South who hold the power economically and they don't really distribute the wealth that's created in a democratic way. – Jerald Podair	Found on CNN 8 years ago
You could draw a line from the antebellum South to the economics of the South today, from the time of the Southern plantation owners, there have been a small group of people in the South who hold the power economically and they don't really distribute the wealth that's created in a democratic way. – Jerald Podair	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We are working with around 20 local governments, looking at a large plantation to optimize resources. – Ana Maria Gazmuri	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
My plantation is 30-years-old. In the beginning I got 15 to 17 tonnes of cocoa, but disease has lowered that to seven or eight. – Kambire Ouedraogo	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's only in 2013 that I started to pay for fertiliser and began treating my plantation (with fungicides and insecticides) because I saw that production was slipping each year. – Sebastien Oulai	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

Life on the plantation can be calm. You can even be happy and find fulfillment on the plantation. It may be possible to be friends with the plantation owner. Heck, the plantation owner might even let you run the plantation. But, all of these privileges are only afforded to you as long as you stay on the plantation.

– Link Starbureiy

added by anonymous
9 months ago

The dominant narrative is that because California was a free state, it had nothing to do with slavery, but we've invited people to give expert and personal testimonies on how California was actually complicit in maintaining the institution of slavery, including during the Gold Rush, when Southern plantation owners would take enslaved people to California to mine for gold, despite what the state's constitution said.

– Kamilah Moore

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We can't ignore the image conjured by the word plantation, we can't ignore how painful that is for Black Rhode Islanders to see that and have to see that as part of their state's name.

– Gina Raimondo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Well, you know, the original banjos were all handmade instruments. Gourd - it would be made with gourds and whatever, you know, materials would have been around. And, you know, first hundred years of its existence, the banjo's known as a plantation instrument, as a black instrument.

– Rhiannon Giddens

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

The trees need more sun. The weather is too wet in the plantation, brown rot is a concern for farmers.

– Raphael Kouame

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It [the leasing program] was a way of getting African-Americans into the system so plantation owners could have cheap labor.

– Ken Brown

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Except that Andrew Jackson was a plantation owner that also owned slaves.

– Symone Sanders

Found on CNN
6 years ago

When I am better, I will go back to my plantation. I can't do anything else. I have to eat.

– Bienvenu Bago

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It is not a surprise as the Australia Bureau of Meteorology has formally announced the El Nino since May 2015. Hence, the market had already look ahead into lower FFB production by plantation companies, the net impact to earnings is not expected to be huge, as CPO prices usually increase during the period of insufficient supply globally. Historically, the impact of CPO prices to earnings will more than offset the loss in FFB production.

– Alan Lim

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Using fires is the cheapest method to prepare a plantation, when you have no money, you go (for) the cheapest way.

– Mansuetus Alsy Hanu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Those big scale companies are also eager to expand their operations into the adjacent peatland, whether they deliberately set the fire, or they can also ask people in the communities around their areas to burn the land, that's also a possibility. And then at the end, those burned areas are proposed as the expansion of their plantation.

– Yuyun Indradi

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I became interested in Cuba hearing the stories of my great-grandparents and my grandmother. She lived until she was about 11 or 12 on a small sugar plantation in Chaparra, in eastern Cuba.

– The Rev. Gilbert Walker

Found on CNN
8 years ago

From the time of the Southern plantation owners, there have been a small group of people in the South who hold the power economically and they don't really distribute the wealth that's created in a democratic way.

– Jerald Podair

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You could draw a line from the antebellum South to the economics of the South today, from the time of the Southern plantation owners, there have been a small group of people in the South who hold the power economically and they don't really distribute the wealth that's created in a democratic way.

– Jerald Podair

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We are working with around 20 local governments, looking at a large plantation to optimize resources.

– Ana Maria Gazmuri

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

My plantation is 30-years-old. In the beginning I got 15 to 17 tonnes of cocoa, but disease has lowered that to seven or eight.

– Kambire Ouedraogo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's only in 2013 that I started to pay for fertiliser and began treating my plantation (with fungicides and insecticides) because I saw that production was slipping each year.

– Sebastien Oulai

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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