The island was even involved in the American Revolutionary War, because the French were jealous of its commercial success.

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Englishmen initially created plantation societies in the West Indies, and in the 1670s South Carolina became a northern extension ... Since the 1970s former rice plantations have become upscale ...

Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize has been awarded. On the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 inauguration, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History announced that Edda L. Fields-Black, author ...

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JAKARTA, March 26 (Reuters) - Indonesian authorities will hand over more land that has been seized in probes into illegal palm plantations to new state company Agrinas Palma Nusantara, officials ...

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The approximately 9,100-acre property that encompasses the gardens was once four separate rice plantations. Visitors can learn more about the more than 1,000 enslaved Africans who worked and lived ...

If you time your trip right, Middleton Place offers the most glorious spectacle of synchronous blooms, notably along the "azalea hillside," a bank rising from the rice mill pond that was planted ...

After the assault where a man was armed with an ax and dagger, he ran into nearby woods, the sheriff’s office said.