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National tree plantation day of Pakistan ( قومی شجر کاری دن ) is celebrated on 18 August.
It is thickly vegetated, mainly by the remains of a coconut plantation and casuarina trees.
The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction, and depicts the experiences of Scarlett O ' Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea.
Scarlett O ' Hara uses the title phrase when she wonders to herself if her home on a plantation called " Tara " is still standing or if it is " gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia.
Southern plantation fiction ( also known as Anti-Tom literature ) from the early 19th century culminating in Gone with the Wind is written from the perspective and values of the slaveholder and tends to present slaves as docile and happy.
The story opens in April 1861 at the " Tara " plantation, which is owned by a wealthy Irish immigrant family, the O ' Haras.
Joe is killed at Gettysburg, while Tony eventually murders Jonas Wilkerson in a barroom and flees to Texas, leaving Alex to tend to their plantation lands.
Mammy is " head woman of the plantation ".
The plantation no longer exists, however the land in which the plantation was located is now a San Patricio suburb with a shopping mall by the same name.
* Medan-Kuala Namu International Airport-Tebing Tinggi, 80 percent of the land needed for the toll road construction is owned by state plantation which it is easy to take over, whether the remaining 20 percent is owned by local residents which it is difficult to take over due to unreasonably high prices.
( Located at 11788 Highway 965, between Jackson and St. Francisville, the plantation is now the Audubon State Historic Site.
Between the " scream of shells, the mighty onrush of charges, the grim and grisly aftermath of war ", Cease Firing is a romance novel involving the courtship of a Confederate soldier and a Louisiana plantation belle with Civil War illustrations by N. C. Wyeth.
As the railway network is more focused on plantation areas and not on population and service centres, the railways have become an enterprise generating a heavy loss.
In their book, Vanuatu by Jocelyn Harewood and Michelle Bennett, is this memorable passage referring to the 1920s: " Drunken plantation owners used to gamble ... using the ` years of labour ' of their Melanesian workers as currency.
* Royal Colony of North Carolina Governor George Burrington asks the North Carolina General Assembly to pass an act establishing a town on the Cape Fear River, in what is seen as a political move to shift the power away from the powerful Cape Fear plantation class.
Tubman had been hired out to Dr. Anthony Thompson, who owned a large plantation in an area called Poplar Neck in neighboring Caroline County ; it is likely her brothers labored for Thompson as well.
Away from its native area, it is also extensively used in forestry as a plantation tree for timber in Europe, New Zealand, Chile and elsewhere.
On right is " white officer ", the European overseer, watching plantation workers.
Monticello is the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, who inherited it.
The name " Canaveral " ( Cañaveral in Spanish, meaning " reed bed " or " sugarcane plantation ") is the third oldest surviving European place name in the US.

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In the early days of the minstrel show, this was often a skit set on a Southern plantation that usually included song-and-dance numbers and featured Sambo-and Mammy-type characters in slapstick situations.

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Their having family ties on our plantation & the adjoining one would be a stronger inducement ''.
William was adamant on one point: under no circumstances would he allow the Negroes to remain on the plantation with his and Henry's slaves if they were told of their coming freedom.
In 1900, Com married David Elkington, one of her many suitors who owned a tea plantation in British-occupied Ceylon ( modern Sri Lanka ).
While in prison, Davis arranged to sell his Mississippi plantation to one of his former slaves, Ben Montgomery.
Mitchell's maternal great-grandfather, Philip Fitzgerald, emigrated from Ireland, and eventually settled on a slaveholding plantation near Jonesboro, Georgia, where he had one son and seven daughters with his wife, Elenor.
Tubman told the tale of one voyage with a group of fugitive slaves, when morale sank and one man insisted he was going to go back to the plantation.
In addition, constant shipping traffic along the coast allowed individuals to move from one plantation or town to another in search of work.
Also factually noted, Harrison died the year before Tyler, who was his Vice President for only one month, purchased the plantation.
Developed for cotton plantation agriculture in the nineteenth century, it is one of the counties in Alabama within the Black Belt of the South.
Many mid 18th-century immigrants made fortunes in Ponce, like the owner of this restored coffee plantation ( Hacienda Buena Vista ) founded in 1833 and today one of many points of interest in the municipality
However, one author has observed that McDaniel's character is not far off from the persona of Mammy that Margaret Mitchell created in the book, that in both the film and the book the much younger Scarlett speaks to Mammy in a way that would be unacceptable for a Southern teen of that era to speak to a much older white person, and that neither the book nor the film make any hint to Mammy's own children ( dead or alive ), her own family ( dead or alive ) or her desires to have anything other than her life at Tara serving on a slave plantation.
Much culture has arisen around Bowling Green's hills with an old reservoir, hospital and civil war fort on one, much of Western Kentucky Universities campus on another, Hobson Grove, a historic Italian Renaissance style civil war era plantation estate on another and yet another civil war fort on another.
The plantation included portions of present day Hueytown and was one of the largest cotton plantations in the area.
The town of Hogansville has a unique beginning in that it arose from the pre-Civil War plantation of one man, William Hogan.
In April 2009, Lanai City was named one of the most endangered historic sites in the U. S. It is home to an intact plantation town, something not found on any of the other Hawaiian Islands, dating back to the early 1920s.
By the 1830s, Bayou Teche was the main street of Acadiana, with one plantation after another.
* Thomas Stone National Historic Site, the plantation home of one of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Howard owned a plantation of more than one thousand acres ( 4 km² ), home-construction firm, small zoo and built the first swimming pool for blacks in Mississippi.
Knowing that the approaching New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern Railroad ( now the Illinois Central Railroad ) would need a station for water and fuel, Prewett sold a right-of-way to the railroad company – for one dollar, according to legend – and divided a section of his plantation into town lots, which he sold to investors.
* Casey Farm ( 1725 )-An original colonial plantation that is today one of the oldest operational farms in New England.
This plantation, known as Rose Glen, was worth $ 28, 000 in 1860, one of the most valuable in the county.
One by one the plantation homes were bought and restored and fox hunting and horses became commonplace.
Other early residents of Baytown include William Scott, one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred, and Ashbel Smith, who owned a plantation in the area.
This syle was very popular in the south of the US and many mansions and houses were built for the merchants and rich plantation owners, serve as an example Millford Plantation, regarded as one of the finest Greek Revival residential architecture in the country.

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