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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.
Ernest James Gaines (January 15, 1933 – November 5, 2019) was an American author whose works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese.
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.
An engraving after an oil painting of Agostino Brunias titled Barbados Mulatto Girl.. Brunias was born in Rome c. 1730; the exact day and month of his birth is uncertain. His first name has been recorded in various ways, including Abraham, Alexander, August, or Austin, while his surname has been recorded as Brunais and Brunyas.
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 ...
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 ...
Clotee's best friend on the plantation is a very strong girl named Spicy. Spicy desperately wants to change her name to Rose (the name her mother picked out for her), but is forced to accept the name given by her owners. Clotee later writes in Spicy's Bible, the only keepsake that Spicy has from her mother, that Spicy's name is actually Rose.
The Cara Cara navel orange, or red-fleshed navel orange, is an early-to-midseason navel orange noted for its pinkish-to-reddish-orange flesh.. It is believed to have developed as a spontaneous bud mutation on a "standard" Washington navel orange tree.