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Alex Haley's Queen: The Story of an American Family (1993) is a historical novel, later a movie, that brought knowledge of the "children of the plantation" to public attention. Edward Ball's Slaves in the Family (1998), written by a White descendant of slave owners, describes this complex legacy.
“Children of the plantation” were not uncommon in New Orleans. [6] Bélizaire was born in approximately 1822, so would have been about 15 years old when the portrait was painted. Two of the Frey children in the painting, Élisabeth and Léontine, died of yellow fever in 1837, the year the portrait was painted.
Anzilotti, Cara (2007). "Reviewed work: Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina, S. Max Edelson". The William and Mary Quarterly. 64 (4): 866–868. JSTOR 25096758. Casady, Brian (2007). "Reviewed work: Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina, S. Max Edelson". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 40 (2 ...
George Washington Parke Custis (April 30, 1781 – October 10, 1857) was an American antiquarian, author, playwright, and plantation owner. He was a veteran of the War of 1812 . His father John Parke Custis served in the American Revolution with then-General George Washington , and died after the Battle of Yorktown that ended the revolution.
Edwin Epps (1808 – March 3, 1867) was an enslaver on a cotton plantation in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. Epps was the third and longest enslaver of Solomon Northup, who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and forced into slavery. On January 3, 1853, Northup left Epps's property and returned to his family in New York. [1] [2]
The frontispiece of Mourt's Relation, published in London in 1622. The booklet Mourt's Relation (full title: A Relation or Journal of the Beginning and Proceedings of the English Plantation Settled at Plimoth in New England) was written between November 1620 and November 1621, and describes in detail what happened from the landing of the Mayflower Pilgrims on Cape Cod in Provincetown Harbor ...
Colonel Thomas Norwood: originally played by Stuart Beebe. [2] Norwood is 60 years old. He is a quick-tempered and a commanding colonel. His wife is dead so he took up Cora as a lover and fathered 4 of the mulatto children, but he refuses to acknowledge them as his own, even though he allows them to go to school.
The story is set in Georgia, and the production was filmed in Natchez, Mississippi including at the Melrose mansion [10] It centres around the Kendrick family, owners of Beulah Land and those connected to the plantation by history and fate. The sweeping drama links the Kendricks with the Davises, owners of a neighbouring plantation.