Plantation

In “Winthrop’s Reasons for the Plantation” (1629), the attitude of the Puritans toward their settlement in Massachusetts Bay was hopeful and assured. The document states, on account of religious persecution in Great Britain, that “the [Christian] Church hath no place left to fly but to…

governor for thirty years straight after John carver died. Bradford helped make its legal code and eased a community focused on private subsistence agriculture and religious strength. Around 1630, he began to write his two volumed story "Of Plymouth Plantation." Born in Yorkshire, England, Bradford expressed his nonconformist religious sensibilities in his early teens and joined the famed Separatist church in Scrooby at seventeen. In 1609 he migrated with the…

Fauxwood Plantation Shutters Give Style Antebellum One of the most romantic periods of architecture and interior designs is referred to now as the antebellum period, which literally translates as ‘before the war’ – in this case, the American Civil War. In particular, the antebellum design refers to the old South, with elegant plantation homes appearing in the early 1800s, characterised by Greek or Classical revival touches or the grand federal style. Today, this period is much sought after by…

Through the analysis of the lifetime of a plantation, Diamond Hill, Tiya Miles reveals the gaps in contemporary historical memory and describes a past that placed both Cherokees and African-American slaves in an intertwined world of suffering. Miles employs analysis that touches on the most central issues of the southern past: enslavement, freedom, sovereignty, colonialism, and patriarchy. All of this helps Miles answer the complex question: “What does this house stand for?” The answer Miles…

to find religious freedom and have the ability to praise God as he pleased. During his voyage to America, Bradford wrote about all the obstacles the colonists faced and how they overcame them in his narrative, “Of Plymouth Plantation”. William Bradford’s “Of Plymouth Plantation” both excites and motivates the reader to encourage a change in his or her surroundings just as Bradford did over three and a half centuries ago. Bradford inspires this change through constant references to God, emphasis…

As the turn of the twentieth century approached, millions of slaves continued to suffer under Brazil’s plantation economy and would not receive full emancipatory rights until 1888. The entrenchment of slavery in Brazilian society, is due in large part to the rise and consolidation of its plantation economy. The slave plantation system first emerged in the Canary Islands in the 1450’s. The Portuguese had previously colonized the Atlantic Islands in order to consolidate their expansion into…

Catherine Clinton, the writer of The Plantation Mistress, calls out the many literature pieces concerning slavery, the South, and the many myths concerning the women of this time, in her book. She shows how in literature much of the focus is on the plantation master rather than the women of these plantations and she rather focus on the women in her piece. Through her book readers finally get a serious look at how “the southern belle” lives and how they were treated. The study in her book focuses…

Primary Document Analysis: “The Plantation is Very Weak” The author of this Primary Source is Richard Frethorne. They were addressing this document as a letter to their parents about the many hardships they were experiencing in a plantation, and they were present at the event and a participant. This was written at the time of the event as well, and it is not a recollection of past events. The author is an Englishman, presumably young, and is at a failed plantation site in or near Jamestown.…

The exploration and immigration impacted the lives of those that encountered each other in the “New World” was negative. Balboa, Of Plymouth Plantation and The Tempest have in common starting on their journey looking for new land for the better of their selves. Balboa was about a man that was a gambling pig farmer who is trying to pay his debt. Everybody seen him as a trouble making peasant. He wants to be known as a courage, fearsome and brave person. Balboa’s kingdom in…

people have yearned for freedom, like the pilgrims in William Bradford's “Of Plymouth Plantation” and secured the freedom in their country, like in the “Founding Documents” of Thomas Jefferson and Gouverneur Morris. The pilgrims migrated to a land that was foreign to them in a quest of finding religious freedom while the “Founding Documents” gave people the opportunity of having liberty. In Of Plymouth Plantation, the pilgrims, were escaping England, more so the church of England. Bradford…