Planters Held

Famous quotes containing the words planters and/or held:

“The first day that we landed upon that fatal shore
The planters they came round us full twenty score or more,
They rank’d us up like horses, and sold us out of hand
Then yok’d us unto ploughs, my boys, to plow Van
Dieman’s Land.”
—Unknown. Van Dieman’s Land (l. 9–12)

“There was silence deep as death;
And the boldest held his breath
For a time.”
—Thomas Campbell (1774–1844)