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Example sentences for "large plantation"

  • Gaines's Mill, where our camp was located, was a part of a large plantation owned by Dr.

  • We were on part of a large plantation, the property of a prominent secessionist.

  • The White House was a large plantation, formerly the property of the wife of George Washington and at that time owned by the Lee family.

  • Her parents were Hawkins and Harriet Knox, and at the time of the birth of their daughter were slaves on a large plantation belonging to Governor Frank Pickens.

  • Her mother Tempy, belonged to Bullock, while her father Arnold Merritt, belonged to Edward Merritt, a large plantation owner.

  • He was a man of mediocre means, and instead of having a large plantation as was usual in those days, he ran a boarding house, the revenue therefrom furnishing him substance for a livelihood.

  • When asked to tell about Mr. Moore, her owner, and his family Jennie Kendricks stated that although her master owned and operated a large plantation, he was not considered a wealthy man.

  • Mr. Smith owned a large plantation, and also "around one hundred and fifty, to two hundred Darkies".

  • Illustration: Lewis Jones] LEWIS JONES, 86, was born a slave to Fred Tate, who owned a large plantation on the Colorado River in Fayette Co.

  • Mr. Tompkins, a man who had always been opposed to slavery, thus found himself the owner of a large plantation in Virginia, and more than a hundred slaves.

  • Mrs. Julia Juniper owned and possessed (as the lawyers say) a large plantation, and the granite mansion she had furnished with lavish elegance.

  • In the afternoon of the day of their arrival, the Ticonderoga tied up in front of a large plantation-house.

  • They came to anchor in front of a large plantation, owned by the man after whom the place was named.

  • That is, cotton planting on a large plantation is an industrial enterprise requiring considerable capital, trained managers, and a large plant of buildings, tools, animals and Negroes.

  • He was never married, and was the owner of a large plantation, and his many slaves sought the first opportunity to make their escape.

  • He had a large plantation, and two hundred hands employed.

  • Widely differing from this captain's spirit was another, who was the owner of a large plantation, with numerous slaves, yet a strong Union man, and his wife and daughters sympathized with him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after times; large amounts; large black; large bodies; large bundle; large characters; large dimensions; large element; large field; large flat; large herd; large mouth; large party; large patch; large pond; large river; large scale; large slice; large spoon; large table; larger force; larger number; larger portion; larger work; largest exporter; might bring