While there, he befriended a wealthy plantation owner and medical man, and subsequently married his widow.

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He went out every day to basically chop cotton and pick coffee for the plantation owner where he lived.

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High in the mountains of Taiwan, Lee Luan-Fu, the wife of a tea plantation owner, poured me a cup of tea.

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Tim Clark accusing Mr Hands of acting like a "plantation owner" who had stumbled into the music industry via a "vanity purchase".

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From his conduct as president so far, it is hard to believe that Mr Bush's own deepest values are those of an imperialist plantation owner.

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Slavers could count on the Archbishop of Canterbury to defend them before God, and on politicians, like the young William Gladstone, himself the son of a plantation-owner, to plead their case in Parliament.

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' Over a dinner of a chicken impaled and roasted on a spike, its head still attached, with fiddlehead ferns and whole sprouting peanuts, the owner of the plantation put a different angle to me: 'Picking tea - it's women's work - it always has been.

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