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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"planter"”.
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George Mason: Slave Owning Virginia Planter as Slavery Opponent?
… of George Mason as a slave owning, Virginia planter, and Founding Father who served as a slavery opponent remains elusive.</p>
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Analysis of soil compaction and furrow depth from planter row unit
In agriculture, the performance of the planter row unit is crucial for specific row-crop operations, such as furrow formation, seed placement, and soil-conditioning during planting. It affects seed spacing and singulation, root growth, emergence, crop health, yield, and field traffic management. …
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A Requiem to Departed Days: The Transformation and Retrenchment of Planter-Class Women in Georgia
… slaves, and providing for their families. For planter-class women, advances in personal autonomy were not discarded after the war, however, the more public nature of their postwar activities was conducted within the confines of a traditional gender construct, constrained by overarching issues …
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Quantitative multifactor analysis of planter settings and row unit design for corn stand establishment in precision agriculture
… is attributed to intricate interactions among planter operational parameters, soil heterogeneity, and the design of mechanical components. Critical factors, including planting speed, hydraulic downforce application, and row unit arrangement, significantly influence the quality of seed-to-soil …
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Sheltering colonialism: the archaeology of a house, household, and white Creole masculinity at the 18th-century Little Bay Plantation, Montserrat, West Indies
In the final quarter of the 18th century, a planter's dwelling overlooking the Caribbean Sea at Little Bay on the northwest coast of Montserrat in the British Leeward Islands was destroyed by fire and never reoccupied. Archaeological excavations in 2010 and 2011 yielded fragments of personal …
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Machine Vision Systems for Real-Time Plant Variability Sensing and in-Field Application
… these variations is directly related to the planter performance, a machine vision-based emerged corn plant sensing system (ECS) was developed for the performance evaluation for prototype planters. With the real-time image sequencing capability, the system also achieved an average spacing …
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Portable inshoe gait analysis device
… are devices or systems that quantify the planter /' pressures as they occur under the foot. The data obtained, be it. in visual or digital format, assists the medical practitioner in the diagnosis of an abnormality of gait. This thesis describes the development of a low-cost, portable, …
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“‘With God For Us, We Must Be Successful’: Nationalism, Slavery, and Death in the Civil War Letters of Robert Franklin Bunting”
… was a preeminent Presbyterian minister, church planter, and Confederate chaplain. Before serving as a chaplain, he planted multiple churches in Central Texas. As a chaplain, he wrote numerous letters to various Texas newspapers. This thesis utilizes Bunting’s letters to understand how white …
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Corn planting methods in Virginia's residue mulch
… a conventional two-row, tractor-mounted corn planter with fertilizer attachment. The plots were planted, using six treatments randomized in each of the eight plots, on May 10, under fair conditions. The performance of the planting equipment was good except in the planting of the first three …
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Essays in Internationsl Political Economy
… and traces the mechanisms through which the planter elite managed to maintain a monopoly over policy making and retard long run development. The second paper highlights the importance that exogenous output price changes had for the willingness of planter elites to engage in costly coercion …
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Equipping Church Planters
… professions including other clergy. The church planter is one who not only feels led to pastor but start a church. The leadership skills and tools needed to successfully start and lead a church are the subject of this study. Fourteen church planting pastors affiliated with the Baptist General …
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The Process of Colonial Adaptation: English Responses to the 1692 Earthquake at Port Royal, Jamaica
… earthquake accelerated Jamaica's transition to a planter-dominated society. </p>
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Henry Lewis Benning: Fire-eating Confederate General 1837-1865
… Benning. Ambitious and keen on rising within planter society, Benning married well and used his position to further his political aims. Early in his career, Benning would be identified with the fire-eaters who preached disunion as a means of solving the South's problems. As a delegate to the …
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A Plantation Mistress of the Old South: The Life of Ann Barnes Archer of Mississippi
… married Richard Thompson Archer, a successful planter twenty-one years her senior. Over the course of their thirty- two years of marriage, the Archers raised ten children and acquired over five hundred slaves. Their family and bondpersons were the defining elements of their lives. As the wife …
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Jonathan Boucher: Moderate Loyalist and Public Man
… the account of a thoroughly Americanized cleric, planter, and would-be patriot caught up in a bewildering collapse of civil and religious authority in Maryland. Torn by loyalty to Church and State of England and by his love for America, Boucher's courage, integrity, and principles forced him into …
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John Hartwell Cocke (1780-1866): From Jeffersonian Palladianism to Romantic Colonial Revivalism in Antebellum Virginia
John Hartwell Cocke was a Virginia planter and amateur architect whose style evolved from Jeffersonian Classicism to a revival of English Tudor-Stuart or Jacobethan architecture. This dissertation discusses the Cocke family's Elizabethan roots and advances four theses. The first of these theses is …
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The use of legume cover crops in no-tillage broccoli and cabbage production
… L.) were set with a locally adapted NT vegetable planter. None of the variables studied affected the final plant stand. Yield and head size with NT were equal to or greater than CT. Soil moisture was higher under NT plots throughout the growing season. Yield and head size with the two legume …
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An adaptive image processing algorithm for field plant population analysis based on UAV imaging system
… population data to check the accuracy between planter setting and actual plant population. However, counting of plant population is difficult in agriculture. Manual counting is the main counting method to get plant population. For 30 inch rows, researchers or farmers measure 17 feet 5 inches …
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Rethinking representations of slave life a historical plantation museums: towards a commemorative museum pedagogy
… faced with revising the museum’s traditional planter-focused tour to an integrated tour that elevated the historical presence of the enslaved community. Looking through an educational psychoanalytic lens, I found that the newly introduced slave life histories disrupted museum workers’ …
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The cultural and social milieu of Westmoreland Davis
… by becoming a good-farmer equivalent of the good-planter, by continuing the horticultural tradition of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, and by serving the Commonwealth as governor from a sense of responsibility which had been synonymous with the Virginia term, gentleman. Thus, one can …
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