The main reason for the lack of support for these efforts was that the vast majority of Creoles, especially the plantation owners, rejected any kind of separatism, considering Spain's power essential to the maintenance of slavery.

The number of sugar mills dropped and efficiency increased, with only companies and the most powerful plantation owners owning them.

While Freeland was complacent about their activities, other plantation owners became incensed that their slaves were being educated.

In 1758, after a failed plot to poison the drinking water of the plantation owners, he was captured and burned alive at the public square in Cap-Français.

In Roll, Jordan, Roll, historian Eugene D. Genovese ignored all that and focused on the interaction on the plantation between slaves and their owners.

This campaign signaled the end of the English attempt, in collaboration with the plantation owners, to restore slavery and other aspects of the ancien regime.

Mauritian Creoles trace their origins to the plantation owners and slaves who were brought to work the sugar fields.

The numerous plantations of small landholders frequently included attached hamlets of workers in addition to the independent houses of the plantation owners.

This emancipation was followed by four years of apprenticeship, put in place to protect the plantation owners from losing their labour force.

With the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, plantation owners in the new British colony of Trinidad and Tobago were left with a severe shortage of labour.

After the slaves were freed, the plantation owners were desperate for new sources of labour.

The government purchased the slaves for £ 20, 000, 000 ( the money went to rich plantation owners who mostly lived in England ), and freed the slaves, especially those in the Caribbean sugar islands.

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.

He also imprisoned some cotton plantation owners who refused to raise their assigned crops, which were intended to be redistributed within Mexico instead of being exported.

Slaves were permitted to leave the plantations and pursue their own interests, and, with the British abolition of slavery in the 1830s, many plantation owners returned to Europe, leaving Anguilla's community consisting largely of subsistence farmers and fishermen of African descent.

With all others in the British Empire, Antiguan slaves were emancipated in 1834, but remained economically dependent upon the plantation owners.

However, plantation owners and merchants of British descent still dominated local politics, owing to the high-income qualification required for voting.

As was common at the time, plantation owners were expected to fortify their own holdings, and Fort Purcell and Fort Hodge were erected on this basis.

As Tortola, and to a lesser extent Virgin Gorda, came to be settled by plantation owners, slave labour became economically essential, and there was an exponential growth in the slave population during the 18th century.

Joseph John Gurney, a Quaker, wrote in his Familiar Letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky that the plantation owners in Tortola were " decidedly saving money by the substitution of free labor on moderate wages, for the deadweight of slavery ".

When Denmark abolished slavery in 1848, many plantation owners wanted full reimbursement, on the grounds that their assets were damaged by the loss of the slaves, and by the fact that they would have to pay for labor in the future.

The Danish government paid fifty dollars for every slave the plantation owners had owned and recognized that the slaves ' release had caused a financial loss for the owners.

As employees, former slaves were not plantation owners ' responsibility and did not receive food from their employers.

Many farmers and plantation owners, including U. S. Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, cut and stored ice in the winter for use in the summer.

The planter aristocracy has appeared in literature at least since John Pendleton Kennedy published Swallow-Barn in 1832 and in his genial portrait of Frank Meriwether presiding over his plantation dominion initiated the most persistent tradition of Southern literature.

Charles Thiot, a splendid Georgia soldier, differed from most of his comrades in the ranks in that he was the owner of a large plantation, well-educated, and nearly fifty years of age.

The movement has been the most active in Indonesia where already 6 million hectares are used for palm oil plantation and has plans for another 4 million hectares by 2015.

Until the riots 1969, co-existence between the three ethnicities ( and other minor groups ) was largely peaceful, although the three main racial groups for the most part lived in separate communities-the Malays in the villages, the Chinese in the urban areas, and the Indians in the towns and plantation.

The most important of these estates was a sugar plantation with an encomienda that provided the labor needed to run the estate.

Among the most famous and influential pineapple industrialists was James Dole who moved to Hawaii in 1899 and started a pineapple plantation in 1900.

They were protesting French Colonial rule and winning the fight ( with the assistance, in part, of the mosquito ), as the French plantation owners, most holding land grants from Louis XVI ( farming, primarily sugar ), were succumbing to yellow fever.

The most important for early Pittsylvania was that of Sam Pannill, a Scots-Irishman, who at the end of the eighteenth century, while still a young man, set up a plantation town at Green Hill on the north side of the Staunton River in Campbell.

The county is heavily forested in most areas due in part to the many large plantation pine farms.

The plantation was worked by approximately 1, 000 slaves, but Yulee was an absentee owner, spending most of his time in Fernandina.

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.

John Adams owned none ; George Washington freed his slaves in his will ( his wife independently held numerous dower slaves ); Thomas Jefferson freed five slaves in his will, and the remaining 130 were sold to settle his estate debts ; James Madison did not free his slaves but some were sold to pay off estate debts, and his wife and son retained most to work Montpelier plantation ; Benjamin Franklin freed his slaves ; Alexander Hamilton likely owned slaves and freed them, as he was an officer of the New York Manumission Society ; the society was founded by John Jay, who freed his domestic slaves in 1798, the same year as governor he signed a gradual abolition law in New York.

Slaves comprised most of the labor through the plantation era.

This plantation, known as Rose Glen, was worth $ 28, 000 in 1860, one of the most valuable in the county.

Probably the single most important factor a plantation has on the local environment is the site where the plantation is established.

Washington selectively bred sheep and grew various types of crops on the plantation, including flax, hemp, cotton and silk: in 1794 he wrote to the gardener at Mount Vernon advising " ake the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere ".

One of Chesnutt's most important works was The Conjure Woman ( 1899 ), a collection of stories set in postbellum North Carolina in which Uncle Julius, a freed slave, entertains a white couple from the North with fantastical tales of antebellum plantation life.

Social commentary continued to dominate most performances, with plantation material constituting only a small part of the repertoire.

After the Civil War, this character became the most common figure in plantation sketches.

The black troupes sang the most authentic jubilees, while white companies inserted humorous verses and replaced religious themes with plantation imagery, often starring the old darky.

PLEASE NOTE: The original official written standard for the ABBB by Lana Lou Lane has been changed in some case in the area of measurements and weights, from the original larger type standard leaning towards the American Bulldog although some still maintain the original standard, most others are scaled down types more recembling the Olde Tyme Bulldog / Victorian Bulldog, medium sized, rather than the larger plantation protection dogs as intended with the Lane family designed and described in World Atlas of Dog Breeds, give or take the 10-15 lbs allowed on top of this original standard.

The most common plantation crop is coffee, especially Coffea robusta variety.

During the colonial years new companies were formed to greatly expand agricultural activities which in turn increased tax revenues for public works that further stimulated economic growth ; “... over all, the period of German rule was the most progressive, economically, that the country has experienced .” J. C. Godeffroy, as the leading trading and plantation company on Samoa, maintained communications among its various subdivisions and branches and the home base at Hamburg with its own fleet of ships.