Famous quotes containing the words england and/or planters:
“So youll face me with a court of inquiry, eh, in England. Well, Mr. Christian, were a long way from England and what can happen on this ship before we get there may surprise even you.”
—Talbot Jennings (18961985)
“The first day that we landed upon that fatal shore
The planters they came round us full twenty score or more,
They rankd us up like horses, and sold us out of hand
Then yokd us unto ploughs, my boys, to plow Van
Diemans Land.”
—Unknown. Van Diemans Land (l. 912)