Tag: Plantation

The other day, I went on a field trip to look at a local former slave plantation. I ran across information about the Bulow Plantation, a former sugar plantation that has been converted into a state park. I've lived in Flagler County in Florida for nearly three years now and had never heard ...

This morning, as I sometimes do, I had tea with breakfast, flipping on the electric stove in my apartment to start a kettle boiling. The distance from the stove to the cupboard was short, yet in that walk back I noticed the packet I had chosen — the brand of mint tea I had been buying and brew...

This morning, as I sometimes do, I had tea with breakfast, flipping on the electric stove in my apartment to start a kettle boiling. The distance from the stove to the cupboard was short, yet in that walk back I noticed the packet I had chosen — the brand of mint tea I had been buying and brew...

There’s nothing romantic about a plantation wedding when you consider the brutal mistreatment of enslaved people forced to live and work there. Sure, the South has its natural charms. Mighty pecan, magnolia, and oak trees with branches stretching out to reach one another, bayous, lakes, rivers...