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    she was also homesick because the work on the sugar cane plantation was very difficult for her due to her frailness. Riyo became best friends with a Japanese picture bride named Kana‚ who was also saving up to return to Japan. To help Riyo make more money to save‚ Kana introduced Riyo to ‘the laundry business’‚ which involved washing the white folk’s laundry‚ and delivering it to them. Kana ended up dieing in a fire on the sugar cane plantation when she tried to save her small son. Riyo continued the

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    rebels gained control of vast quantities of gold‚ diamonds‚ natural rubber‚ and tropical hardwoods. Until the 1950s‚ Liberia’s economy was almost totally dependent upon subsistence farming and the production of rubber. The American-owned Firestone plantation was the country’s largest employer and held a concession on some one million acres (404‚700 hectares) of land. With the discovery of high-grade iron ore‚ first at Bomi Hills‚ and then at Bong and Nimba‚ the production and export of minerals became

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    a) Explain why the liberal party achieved a landslide victory in the 1906 election (12 marks) There are several reasons why the liberals won the general election of 1906. The first being due to the changes in the social and political structure of the country. The three reform acts from 1832-1844/5 allowed more adult men to vote and by 1885 a majority of voters were working class. This meant that political partied needed to appeal to this group if they were to stand any chance of winning a general

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    Question: Examine the importance of the slave trade to the development of the plantation economies. The slave trade was vital to the development of plantation economies‚ which could only expand and survive in the West Indies with the use of slave labour. The slave trade brought enslaved Africans from Africa to colonies in the West Indies‚ which had begun to take part in the "sugar Revolution" starting in 1640. The plantation system which essentially is the organization of agriculture on a large scale

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    After the New World was discovered in the sixteenth century‚ England began a campaign to colonize what is now the East coast of the United States. In 1607‚ John Smith arrived in the New World and began an English colony called Jamestown. A little more than ten years later‚ in 1620‚ William Bradford was the governor of Plymouth‚ another colony. You would be hard pressed to find another example in history where two very different men accomplished the same goal. One man was a veteran soldier and a daring

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    Dorothy May in 1613 and together they voyage to Plymouth with Pilgrims; 1620 Dorothy dies followed by governor John Carter in 1621 and place is taken by Bradford and together with the pilgrims on the Mayflower to the Plymouth Who writes about the plantation and stops in 1650 but died in 1657.On the voyage there were those who supported in need “They talked about God their trip.” (Bradford).They relied on God the entire trip as it was their belief. His stories were left alive such as when on the ship

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    Mid Term Essay Exam Section I: Literature through 1700 In both the poem "Contemplations" by Anne Bradstreet and William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation‚ nature is a main subject. Both poems are interested in nature’s role in people’s (especially Christian’s) lives‚ whether it be negative or positive. The question that comes to mind is nature a chaotic wilderness‚ the physical evidence of Satan’s meddling‚ or is it the marvelous examples of the works of God? Bradford believed very

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    Why the Troubles in Ireland lasted so Long and were so Bloody Angelina Trujillo Brookline College Why the Troubles in Ireland lasted so Long and were so Bloody As one of the worst conflicts in the world since the Second World War‚ Northern Ireland is one of the most studied areas in the world. It has been said that: “If all the publications‚ the explanations‚ the analyses and the ‘solutions’ to the Northern Irish ‘problem’ were put side by side they would span the

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    of a high birth rate and low mortality rate on the plantation whereby female slaves were reproducing and highly fertile and their babies survived. The absence of this particular natural population growth is largely due to the fact that slaves were relatively cheap‚ therefore emphasis was put on buying rather than breeding slaves before 1807‚ also‚ the malnutrition which defined and constantly overshadowed life of the enslaved/. On the plantation there was a general lack of or inadequate medical care

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    Chelsea Griffin The Slave Community: Plantation Life In The Antebellum South By: John W. Blassingame African American History – HIST 3881 Dr. Arwin Smallwood The University of Memphis The slave community during the early centuries of North America brought forth the process of capturing‚ preservation of culture‚ and the element of survival. Slaves were traded and sold by their own people. Native born Africans and their American born descendants “africanized” the south‚ and strong willed‚

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