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"Children of the plantation" is a euphemism used [by whom?] to refer to people with ancestry tracing back to the time of slavery in the United States in which the offspring was born to black African female slaves (either still in the state of slavery or freed) in the context of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and Non-Black men, usually the slave ...
The song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" won the 1947 Academy Award for Best Original Song [5] and Baskett received an Academy Honorary Award for his performance as Uncle Remus. Since its initial release the film has attracted controversy, with critics characterizing its portrayal of African Americans and plantation life as racist.
Plantation tradition is a genre of literature based in the Southern United States that is heavily nostalgic for antebellum times. [1] The ideology is that of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy , though this specific genre is often called "The Plantation Myth."
Northup persuaded John Manning, an English sailor, to send to Henry B. Northup, upon reaching New Orleans, a letter that told of his kidnapping and illegal enslavement. [ 58 ] [ j ] Henry was a lawyer, a relative of Henry Northrop who had held and freed Solomon's father, [ 11 ] and a childhood friend of Solomon's.
Adelicia Hayes Franklin Acklen Cheatham (March 15, 1817 – May 4, 1887) was an American planter and slave trader. She became the wealthiest woman in Tennessee and a plantation owner in her own right after the 1846 death of her first husband, Isaac Franklin.
Epps leased the Bayou Huffpower plantation from Joseph B. Robert, his wife's uncle. In 1845, Epps moved Patsey and other enslaved people to his 300-acre plantation near Bunkie in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. [3] Solomon Northup and Patsey became friends on the Epps plantation. Known as the "queen of the fields", Patsey was often praised by her ...
James Parke Corbin (1808-1868) inherited the plantation, which did not have a significant house, from his father, Richard Corbin (1771-1819). [3] After his and his father's main plantation house, Laneville in King and Queen county, burned in 1843, Corbin began construction of the manor in the then-popular Greek Revival style. Enslaved labor ...
Virginia Estelle Randolph (May 1870 – March 16, 1958) was an American educator in Henrico County, Virginia. [1] She was named the United States' first "Jeanes Supervising Industrial Teacher" by her Superintendent of Schools, Jackson Davis, [2] and she led a program funded by the Jeanes Foundation to upgrade vocational training throughout the U.S. South as her career progressed.