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Others treated their multiracial children as property; Alexander Scott Withers, for instance, sold two of his children to slave traders, where they were sold again. 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.
Had he died before they were freed, Anna and the children would have been sold as slaves. [12] As Kingsley was involved in shipping as well as the slave trade, he was frequently away from the plantation. Laurel Grove had a manager, also a former slave who had been freed. Kingsley trusted Anna to represent him at the plantation. [13] [note 1]
Annie Greene was born at the Parrott Plantation in Darlington County, South Carolina, on December 5, 1902, to Sylvester and Nancy Greene (née Muldow). [1] [3] [4] [2] She was the eldest child of thirteen or fourteen children. [1] [5] Sylvester Greene was a sharecropper and a music teacher. [2]
Scholar Arlene R. Keizer, writing about a work by the African-American artist Kara Walker, argues that she uses cut-paper silhouette to cast "the entire family, white and black, slave masters, slave mistresses, enslaved 'concubines,' and children (following the condition of the mother), into shadow...a dysfunctional family portrait, referencing both the biological families engendered through ...
The plantation featured a main house and a two-story structure called the "Ma'am Anna House". It had the main kitchen on the ground floor and living quarters on the second. Anna lived there with her children, as was the custom among the Wolof people. This also protected Kingsley from the charge of cohabitation with a Black. [8]: 27
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It seems Sharon Stone is not the only powerful person in her family.. In PEOPLE's exclusive look at the actress' appearance on the Jan. 28 episode of Finding Your Roots, Stone, 66, is at a loss ...
Marie Thérèse Coincoin, [a] born as Coincoin (with no surname), [1] also known as Marie Thérèse dite Coincoin, [2] and Marie Thérèse Métoyer, [3] [4] (August 1742 – 1816) was a planter, slave owner, [1] and businesswoman at the colonial Louisiana outpost of Natchitoches (later known as Natchitoches Parish).