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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.
Norman's chart of the lower Mississippi River is a historically significant map produced in 1858 of landmarks, roads, ferry crossings, and plantations along the course of the Mississippi River from Natchez to New Orleans. [1] [2] Cotton and sugar plantations are color-coded with distinct colors. [1]
[[Category:Family tree templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add <noinclude>[[Category:Family tree templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character.
The Washington family is an American family of English origins that was part of both the British landed gentry and the American gentry.It was prominent in colonial America and rose to great economic and political eminence especially in the Colony of Virginia as part of the planter class, owning several highly valued plantations, mostly making their money in tobacco farming.
This template produces one row in a "family tree"-like chart consisting of boxes and connecting lines based loosely on an ASCII art-like syntax. It is meant to be used in conjunction with {{Tree chart/start}} and {{Tree chart/end}}. The chart is displayed as HTML tables using CSS attributes, and may contain arbitrary wiki markup within
A similar use of {} can be used to construct a top down tree, but there is a template ({{Ahnentafel-chart}}) that can be used to display bottom-up or top-down family trees using {} that is simpler to construct:
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"Family amalgamation among the Men-stealers" (Picture of Slavery in the United States of America by Rev. George Bourne, published by Edwin Hunt in Middletown, Conn., 1834) A shadow family was an unacknowledged child or children created by a white male slave owner with a female slave. Often they lived in physical proximity to their father, and a ...