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Eston Hemings was born on May 21, 1808, and raised in slavery at Monticello, the Jefferson plantation in Virginia.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

RHB Research upgrades its rating for the plantation sector to overweight from neutral, naming Johor Plantations Group, Sarawak Oil Palms, IOI Corp.,

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Duncan was born Ruby Lee Phillips on June 7, 1932, near Tallulah, La., where her parents, Ida Bolden and Joseph Phillips, were sharecroppers on a white-owned plantation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

He was unable to train that day because he had not had time to collect his kit after finishing work at a papaya plantation.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

The Islands have a long and complex cultural history, but are most known for their rich African-American heritage as white plantation owners left the islands in the 19th century leaving their slaves behind.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Meanwhile, the Deep South consisted of a landowning class, some of whom relocated from slave plantations in the Caribbean, who formed an "oligarchic, top-down society".

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

Sharda Devi, 55, a settler's daughter, recalls the first arrivals "toiling in some of the harshest conditions" to carve plantations out of the tangled forests.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

To the left and right, a dense forest frames the scene, while farther off, in the middle distance, a few lonely plantations and houses can barely be made out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

Their base case sees Middle East tensions peaking in 2Q before easing in 2H, supporting tactical upside in oil and gas, and plantations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

When the nation split during the Civil War, Northerners could no longer get cane from those plantations along the Mississippi, so they had to go across the ocean—to paradise: Hawaii.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson