Members of the family who emigrated to America in the late 19th century and settled in Pennsylvania founded the Peruzzi chain of automobile dealerships and the Planters Nut and Chocolate Company.
He started his career as a bellhop and fruit stand vendor in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Planters and overseers fled area plantations ahead of the oncoming Union troops, and thousands of slaves were effectively liberated.
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In response to the demands of tea planters in Assam for a rail link to Chittagong port, the Assam Bengal Railway started construction of a railway track on the eastern side of Bengal in 1891.
The railroad ran from Bird's Point through Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Texarkana, Texas and to Gatesville, Texas, offering planters a convenient route to transfer their cotton bales to the Mississippi for water transport to markets in the Midwest.
Visiting authors (and tree-planters at the grove) include Wole Soyinka, Yasar Kemal, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Seamus Heaney, Amos Oz, Izzat al-Ghazzawi, Bei Dao, Hans Blix and Thor Heyerdahl.
The French Revolution (1789) had an impact on Trinidad's culture, as it resulted in the emigration of Martinique planters and their French creole slaves to Trinidad where they established an agriculture-based economy (sugar and cocoa) for the island.
In 1975 the PCA acquired a bank, renamed the United Coconut Planters Bank, to service the needs of coconut farmers, and the PCA director, Eduardo Cojuangco, a business associate of Marcos, became its president.
At Corotoman, Carter maintained a building known as the "Brick House Store" where he kept imported goods that he sold and bartered to local planters.
Digges's son Edward was among the "planters," who emigrated in the 1640s and became Governor of Virginia.
France Antelme was born on 12 March 1900 in Curepipe, Mauritius, to an influential family of planters and politicians.
The area along Guayaguayare Bay, between the Lizard River (originally Rio de Iguanas) and the Pilote River (Rio de Pilotas) was settled by French planters and their slaves in the late eighteenth century following the 1783 Cedula de Población.
The Chittagong link had been constructed in response to the demand of the Assam tea planters for a railway link to Chittagong port.
The house was built from 1759 to 1771 for Edwin Lascelles, whose family had bought the estate after making its fortune in the West Indies through Customs positions, slave trading and lending money to planters.
Several sources attest that after the death of his third wife, the widower Wayles took his mixed-race slave Elizabeth Hemings, then about 26 years old, as his concubine, a practice relatively common among planters.
He was a Hindu Kayastha by birth and his father Guruprasad Mitra was a landholder who led an agitation against oppression by British indigo planters.
Consisting of wealthy planters, businessmen, and New Orleans's Regular Democratic Organization political bosses, the political leadership of the state united behind the candidacy of U.S. Congressman Riley J. Wilson of Ruston in July 1927.
Antebellum architecture is seen in many plantations, especially in the "plantation house," the large residences of planters and their families.
As cacao planters settled the area, the village on the banks of the Rio Claro came to be called by that name.
It was played in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina at the Shipyard Golf Club (1982-1984), at the Planters Row Golf Club (1985), and at the Harbour Town GL (1986-1987).
Although there is evidence that Tortolian planters evaded the law by illegally trading with privateers from St. Thomas, slaves clearly became exponentially more valuable, and were treated accordingly.
Before the American Civil War, planters depended on enslaved labor of thousands of African Americans to cultivate and process the cotton for market.
Silver Oak trees which are grown for shade in the coffee estates are sold as timber which fetches the planters good revenue.A lot of citrus fruits are grown like orange,lime,sweetlime and many other varieties of this family.
Other prominent Morehouse Parish planters include the Barhams, brothers Edwards Barham and Robert J. Barham, who have also served in the Louisiana State Senate.