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sugar-plantation

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  • His 1996 series "The Sugar Children" — portraits of the children of sugar-plantation workers, rendered in sugar — are part of the permanent collection in New York 's Museum of Modern Art. Vic Muniz Irma, the subject of "The Bearer (Irm ã), from Pictures of Garbage, 2008" is the resident cook of the group.

    A Modern Marat 2010

  • Quashee and Sam themselves, sing the entire opening chorus in fixed positions with restrained gestures as though they were almost ghostly museum figures, very much suspended in the past, in no way even seeming to endorse sugar-plantation enslavement, whether it or not was under a non-violent master.

    Directing Obi in the Year 2000 2002

  • The forgotten dead were Javanese — deserters from a sugar-plantation; for the tragedy happened long ago, when labour was being drawn from Java and other oversupplied countries.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • Son of a President of the United States, he is a wealthy sugar-plantation owner, sometime student at Edinburgh and Harvard and graduate of Yale.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • Son of a President of the United States, he is a wealthy sugar-plantation owner, sometime student at Edinburgh and Harvard and graduate of Yale.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

  • Son of a President of the United States, he is a wealthy sugar-plantation owner, sometime student at Edinburgh and Harvard and graduate of Yale.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • Son of a President of the United States, he is a wealthy sugar-plantation owner, sometime student at Edinburgh and Harvard and graduate of Yale.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • Son of a President of the United States, he is a wealthy sugar-plantation owner, sometime student at Edinburgh and Harvard and graduate of Yale.

    Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971

  • She was then at Taloo, a village on the coast of Imeeo, and thither the two adventurers betook themselves, hoping to be at once elevated to important posts at court; but quite resigned, in case of disappointment, to work as day-labourers in a sugar-plantation, or go to sea in a whaler, then in the harbour for wood and water.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

  • Seriously, however, does not this kind of talk savour only too much of the slave-pen and the auction-block of the rice-swamp and the cotton - field; of the sugar-plantation and the driver's lash?

    West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas

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