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planter and aristocracy
The Civil War put an end to the southern planter aristocracy, and with its patron base depleted, Catawba Springs closed in the mid-1860s.
Some of his regimental officers were also members of the North Carolina planter " aristocracy ," including Colonel Collett Leventhorpe leading the 11th North Carolina Infantry and twenty-one-year-old Harry Burgwyn at the head of the 26th North Carolina Regiment, the largest Confederate regiment at Gettysburg.
The Episcopal Church in Alabama began as the church of the planter aristocracy and became the church of the industrial barons.

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It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.
The term " planter " has no universally accepted definition but academic historians have defined it to identify the elite class, " a landowning farmer of substantial means.
It has also been argued that the first laws banning interracial marriage were a response by the planter elite to the problems they were facing due to the socio-economic dynamics of the plantation system in the Southern colonies.
Before arriving in Georgia, Kemble had already concluded, “ It is notorious, that almost every Southern planter has a family more or less numerous of illegitimate coloured children .” It is significant that her statements about Roswell King, Sr. and Roswell King, Jr. and their alleged status as the white fathers of enslaved mulatto children are based on what she was told by slaves who themselves were in some cases inclined to accept hearsay accounts about their paternity.
* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1842 poem " The Quadroon Girl " has a planter, tempted by the slaver's gold, selling his quadroon daughter to a slaver to be his paramour.
A young Sussex gentleman named John Openshaw has a strange story: in 1869 his uncle Elias Openshaw had suddenly come back to England to settle on an estate at Horsham, West Sussex after living for years in the United States as a planter in Florida and serving as a Colonel in the Confederate Army.
The character of Bouffier has some similarity to the legendary early 19th century American tree planter Johnny Appleseed.
The theater was closed during the mid-1990s after water from a leaking concrete planter above the theater collapsed parts of the ceiling, but has since been renovated due to recent interest in the building.
In nearby Kilmore parish, English and Scottish men, women and children were burned to death in the cottage in which they were imprisoned., In County Armagh, recent research has shown that about 1, 250 Protestants were killed in the early months of the rebellion, or about a quarter of the planter population there.

planter and appeared
It was one of these nights, in a tavern brawl, that he caught the eye of the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, who fell " fatally in love " with the tragic Creole planter, appeared to him as an angel and offered him an alternative to his desperate, meaningless life.

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That year, Gardner moved to Borneo, gaining employment as a rubber planter Mawo Estate at Membuket.
Although a planter by inheritance, Ashley knew the Confederate cause had died at the conclusion of the American Civil War.
James Jr's mother, Nelly Conway Madison ( 1731 – 1829 ), was born at Port Conway, the daughter of a prominent planter and tobacco merchant and his wife.
In 1774 at the age of 16, Monroe's father died and he inherited his small plantation and slaves, officially joining the ruling class of the planter elite in what had become the slave society of Virginia.
He also drew up plans to attack French islands in the Caribbean the following year at the suggestion of a Jamaican sugar planter William Beckford.
As a child, Tubman also worked at the home of a planter named James Cook.
He was the son of Cornelius Howard and Ruth ( Eager ) Howard, of the Maryland planter elite and was born at their plantation " Belvedere ," which he inherited after their deaths.
On January 22, 1829, at the age of 35, Houston married 19-year-old Eliza Allen, the daughter of the well-connected planter Colonel John Allen ( 1776 – 1833 ) of Gallatin, Tennessee, who was a friend of Andrew Jackson.
Claiming the Norfolk area was unhealthful ( although it became an area of entrepreneurs ), Francis Nicholson, governor of the colony, and William Byrd, a wealthy and influential planter, offered the French settlement at Manakin Town, an abandoned Monacan village about 20 miles above the falls of the James River.
Many of them migrated to the Indian Territory ( now Oklahoma ), but Leflore himself remained, becoming a planter, and at times a politician.
On a Sunday night at about 10 o ' clock, the tavern home of George Walton, a planter, was showered with stones thrown " by an invisible hand.
The town developed at Vann's Ferry, a ferry crossing established by James Vann, a prominent Cherokee trader and planter.
A planter, for Wiener, owned at least $ 10, 000 worth of real estate in 1850 and $ 32, 000 worth in 1860, equivalent to about the top 8 percent of landowners.
On May 15, 1750 at age 18 Martha married Daniel Parke Custis, a rich planter two decades her senior.
In 1878 at the age of 31, Pulitzer married Katherine " Kate " Davis, an intelligent, compassionate woman of high social standing from a wealthy Mississippi planter family.
He left home at age 18 to make his fortune as a Ceylon tea planter, but drought forced him out of business and back to England.
Between the time of planting and selling, the sharecroppers took up food, clothing, and necessities at excessive prices from the plantation store owned by the planter.
Born in 1777 into the planter class in Goochland County, Virginia, Bates was schooled privately at his family's Belmont plantation by tutors.
John Randolph ( June 2, 1773May 24, 1833 ), known as John Randolph of Roanoke, was a planter, and a Congressman from Virginia, serving in the House of Representatives at various times between 1799 and 1833, the Senate ( 1825 – 1827 ), and also as Minister to Russia ( 1830 ).
Randolph was born at Cawsons, Virginia ( now in Hopewell, Virginia ), the son of rich tobacco planter John Randolph ( 1742 – 1775 ) and Frances Bland ( 1744 – 1788 ).
On January 11, a planter militia led by Col. Manuel André attacked the main body of insurgents at Destrehan Plantation west of New Orleans.
Born Julia Boggs Dent at White Haven plantation west of St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Colonel Frederick Dent, a slaveholding planter and merchant, and Ellen Wrenshall-Dent, Julia was rather plain in appearance and squinted through crossed eyes.
Born at the Cedar Grove plantation in New Kent County, Virginia, Letitia Christian was the daughter of Colonel Robert Christian, a prosperous planter, and Mary Brown-Christian.
For instance, by 1860 the 200 students at Wilberforce University in Ohio, established for blacks, were mostly mixed-race children of wealthy southern planter fathers.

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" Ancient planter " was a term applied to colonists who migrated to the Colony of Virginia " before the coming away of Sir Thomas Dale " ( 1616 ) and who remained in the colony for at least three years.
It was settled by at least 1640 when a planter named John Brown is listed as living there.

planter and since
Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.
The suggestion that Giffen hire out the slaves was not realistic, since no planter would take the risk of having Negroes who knew they were to be free living with his own slaves.
However, parts of the county had long been known as retreats, including the " Little Charleston " of Flat Rock in which South Carolina's Low Country planter families had maintained second homes since the early 19th century.
Orchard Road underwent a $ 40 million revamp in 2009, with the addition of new street lamps, planter boxes, urban green rooms, street tiling and flower totem poles, which have since been removed.

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