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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.
Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina is a book written by S. Max Edelson and published by Harvard University Press in 2006. The work is about plantations, slavery, and economics in colonial South Carolina .
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.
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 ...
Older Southern American English is a diverse set of English dialects of the Southern United States spoken most widely up until the American Civil War of the 1860s, gradually transforming among its White speakers—possibly first due to postwar economy-driven migrations—up until the mid-20th century. [1]
Carrà was born on 18 June 1943 in Bologna [13] to Raffaele Pelloni and Angela Iris Dell'Utri (of Sicilian ancestry) and had a brother named Enzo (died 2001). [14] [15] [16] Her parents, however, separated shortly after the wedding [17] and Carrà spent most of her childhood between her mother's bar and the ice cream shop in Bellaria – Igea Marina. [18]
Escrava Anastacia (12 May 1740 – unknown) is a popular folk saint venerated in Brazil.An enslaved woman of African descent, Anastácia is depicted as possessing incredible beauty, having piercing blue eyes and wearing a punitive iron facemask.
Cara culture, an Andean civilization; Cara Cup, an international professional rugby union tournament; Cara language, a small Plateau language of Nigeria; Combined altitude radar altimeter, a radar altimeter with both analog and digital displays; Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA), a piece of US federal legislation enacted to fight ...