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Nature, recreation, history and culture abound in the tidelands of Georgetown County

The Post and Courier 26 Apr 2023
In a separate agreement, the Ramsey Grove Plantation property on the Black River in Georgetown County — with 2,600 acres — will become another state park ... The enslaved workers who planted the crops, tended them over many years and created the indigo and rice plantations brought their skills from Africa and the West Indies to Georgetown County.
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Georgetown then and now grabs your interest

The Post and Courier 26 Apr 2023
Christopher Gadsden — called by some people the “Sam Adams of the South” — owned what is today Beneventum Plantation a few miles north of Georgetown ... Many of those people had come from Africa or from the West Indies and already knew what was necessary to make the rice culture successful in Georgetown County.
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Contemporary engraving of Marseille during the Great Plague of 1720
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How Plagues Can – And Have – Shaped Human History

IFL Science 21 Apr 2023
Our own species, Homo sapiens, arose some 315,000 years ago, living for the most part in Africa ... On the west coast of Africa, explorers and would-be colonialists died in droves from malaria and yellow fever ... Meanwhile, in the Caribbean, slave labour from tropical West Africa toiled on sugar plantations owned by the English, Spanish, French and Dutch.
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How do plagues change history?

Phys Dot Org 19 Apr 2023
Our own species, Homo sapiens, arose some 315,000 years ago, living for the most part in Africa ... On the west coast of Africa, explorers and would-be colonialists died in droves from malaria and yellow fever ... Meanwhile, in the Caribbean, slave labor from tropical West Africa toiled on sugar plantations owned by the English, Spanish, French and Dutch.
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Revealed: US historian researching royal slavery links criticised those 'fawning' over the Queen after her ...

The Daily Mail 06 Apr 2023
European traders would sail to the west coast of Africa with manufactured goods which they exchanged for people captured by African traders ... The Company had complete control of Britain's slave trade, as well as its gold and Ivory business, with Africa and the forts on the coast of west Africa.
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He speaks 7 languages. Here's how he helps preserve justice in Louisiana's courts.

The Advocate 23 Feb 2023
One of Britton's descendants, according to ancestry reports, was an African-born man who may have been a conquistador in northern Africa before being purchased as a slave by some of his other ancestors. The Turnbull family the Rosedown Plantation in West Feliciana Parish and taught each of their children several languages at home.
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Bad Bunny Overthrows the Grammys

The Atlantic 06 Feb 2023
T he musical artist Bad BunnyBenito Antonio Martínez Ocasio—is known on social media as “San Benito... But he is the saint we needed ... Slaves forcibly migrated from West Africa to work on Spanish sugar plantations transformed rum barrels into drums ... Bomba celebrations—gatherings of slaves from across plantations—became birthing grounds for uprisings .
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Palm oil is actually not that bad (anymore)

Vox 02 Feb 2023
A palm oil plantation in Perak, Malaysia, on November 12, 2019 ... Nearly all of the growth was in Indonesia and Malaysia, partly because the climate is suitable and the government backed industrial-scale plantations. (The oil palm tree is native to West Africa) ... “It’s not the Wild West it used to be.”.
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Brutal slavery and accepting apology

The Daily Herald 11 Jan 2023
Slaves were brought from Africa to harvest sugar cane and other crops on the plantations in the West Indies ... Slaves were packed like sardines in the hull, the hole of the ship on journeys from Africa to the West Indies ... &nbspThe Dutch took their independence from Spain in 1621, shortly after they formed the Dutch West Indian Company.
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The history of chocolate: when money really did grow on trees

The Conversation 22 Dec 2022
... Africa in Latin America, was as currency rather than something to eat or drink ... Far from its Indigenous Central American origins, enslaved Africans, labouring on new plantations in Latin America and later in west Africa, grew much of the cacao that fed the expanding global market.
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Caribbean divided as Netherlands mulls slavery apology

The Grio 18 Dec 2022
The Dutch first became involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the late 1500s but did not become a major trader until the mid-1600s, when they seized Portuguese fortresses along Africa’s west coast and plantations in northeastern Brazil.
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Fri. 8:51 a.m.: Caribbean divided as Netherlands mulls slavery apology

The Vindicator 17 Dec 2022
The Dutch first became involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the late 1500s but did not become a major trader until the mid-1600s, when they seized Portuguese fortresses along Africa’s west coast and plantations in northeastern Brazil.
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Saro Africa group to invest $125m in ethanol, sugar production in Nasarawa

Business Day Online 16 Dec 2022
One of the leading agribusiness value chain and consumer goods companies in West and ...
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Anti-deforestation push putting other ecosystems at risk: study

The Hill 28 Nov 2022
These landscapes — largely in Africa and the periphery of the Amazon — house huge reserves of carbon and support a diverse array of threatened species ...Plantation development would replace the existing ... Palm oil is a fat- and nutrient-dense food native to West Africa.
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Jellyfish design could inspire swimming robots

The Hill 28 Nov 2022
... under pressure to stop buying palm oil from plantations that deforest tropical rainforests. . Palm oil — a fat- and nutrient-dense food native to West Africa but now grown in plantations across the world — is a key ingredient in consumer goods from chocolates to cosmetics.

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