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Immigrant plantation labour in Ceylon
In: The Labour monthly: LM ; a magazine of left unity, Volume 19, p. 503-506
ISSN: 0023-6985
Lost plantations of the South
"The great majority of the South's plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. Matrana weaves together photographs, diaries and letters, architectural renderings, and other rare documents to tell the story of sixty of these vanquished estates and the people who once called them home"--Page 2 of cover
World Affairs Online
John Hearne's Plantation Fantasy
In the 1960s, George Lamming and Sylvia Wynter dismissed the highly successful novelist John Hearne, arguing that his work was weakened by its nostalgic focus on the plantocracy. Their assessment shaped scholarly opinion until the present. This chapter departs from Lamming and Wynter by claiming that Hearne's novels offer an importantly nuanced depiction of the middle class as well as an important vision of the Caribbean as part of a hemispheric American culture stretching from North to South America. While suggesting the critically misunderstood value of Hearne, however, the chapter ultimately argues that after his first novel, Hearne's focus on an Afro-creole planter class – depicted with an apparently unconscious nostalgia – constitutes a failure to engage with the region's political present and future.
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The plantation: An internat. bibliography
In: (A reference publication in anthropology)
. The Plantation Social Network
In: Voices of the Enslaved in Nineteenth-Century Cuba, p. 105-135
Naming Plantations: Toponyms and the Construction of the Plantation System in the English Atlantic
In: Journal of social history, Volume 54, Issue 3, p. 741-774
ISSN: 1527-1897
Abstract
This essay pioneers a critical approach to place naming in early America, which offers new insight into the evolving definition of plantation. In early seventeenth-century England, planting was understood as a public effort to establish new commonwealths. Only gradually around the Atlantic world did plantations become predominantly associated with private places producing staple crops with enslaved labor. This essay uses the radically underutilized evidence of place-names to explore how this slippage occurred on the ground, and the way it shaped, and was shaped by, the individuals who embraced the status of "planter." The names that individuals gave to the places they called plantations reveal how they perceived the plantation and the political, economic, and social relations it structured. By analyzing data from nearly 5,000 named tracts of land patented in four Maryland counties between 1634 and 1750, this essay charts the changing popularity of distinct elements within plantation names, including geographic descriptors, affects of the landowner, and European place-names. It reveals there was no straightforward rush to carve up the land into privatized commercial units. Instead, individuals initially structured plantations around communal frameworks defined variously by manorialism, urban civic traditions, and shared geographic lexicons. As the tobacco economy consolidated into the hands of a slave-owning class, plantation names reframed places as subjective manifestations of planter identities. These conclusions adjust our understanding of the transition to capitalism and slavery in Maryland and they also offer a blueprint for a broader toponymy of the plantation in the Atlantic world.
From plantation to ghetto
In: American century series
The plantation South today
In: Federal Works Agency, Work Projects Administration, Social Problems Series 5
Efficiency of Power Plantations
In: Problems of economic transition, Volume 62, Issue 1-2, p. 22-33
ISSN: 1557-931X
Recent developments in the plantations sector
In: Report
In: International Labour Organisation, Sectoral Activities Programme, Committee on Work on Plantations$lSession 10,1
The Plantation Tradition Redivivus
In: The journal of negro education: JNE ;a Howard University quarterly review of issues incident to the education of black people, Volume 16, Issue 4, p. 559
ISSN: 2167-6437
Filipino Plantation Workers in Hawaii
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Volume 14, Issue 4, p. 487
ISSN: 1715-3379